Vera Lynn Vera Lynn Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (; born 20 March 1917), widely known as "the Forces' Sweetheart", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. During the war she toured Egypt, India, and Burma as part of ENSA, giving outdoor concerts for the troops. The songs most associated with her are "We'll Meet Again", "The White Cliffs of Dover", "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and "There'll Always Be an England". She remained popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the UK
Vera D. Rubin Vera D. Rubin Dr. Vera D. Rubin (1911 - 7 February 1985) was an anthropologist and the director of the Research Institute for the Study of Man. She specialised in the anthropology of the Caribbean. Rubin was born in Moscow in 1911, and migrated to the United States in 1912. She was daughter of Elias Rubin, editor of a Russian-language newspaper. Rubin studied at New York University, graduating in 1930, she studied anthropology with Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Rubin collaborated with Mead and in 1952 was awarded her PhD from Columbia University. She married philanthropist Samuel Rubin, they had