Kent Ford

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Kent Ford is an American astronomer known for his collaboration with Vera Rubin in the 1970s, where they studied the rotation of galaxies and provided groundbreaking evidence for the existence of dark matter.

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Kent Ford collaborated with Vera Rubin on measuring the speed of stars.

Ein Teleskop würdigt eine kämpferische Astronomin

Neue Zürcher Zeitung·

Switzerland· 2025-07-22

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Rubin and her colleague Kent Ford studied more than 60 galaxies and discovered that the stars at the outer edges moved at the same speed as those in the center.

Quién fue Vera Rubin, la astrónoma que da nombre al observatorio con la cámara más grande del mundo que se inaugura en Chile

La Prensa – leading Panamanian daily, est. 1980·

Panama· 2025-06-23

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