Nonsense. 

Vera discovered early that women science students were not accepted at some universities. 

Her controversial master’s thesis examined the possibility of a bulk rotation in the universe by looking for “non-Hubble flow.” At that time, the redshifts (lengthening of light waves due to the motion of an object, such as a star or a galaxy) for only 109 galaxies had been obtained, yet her analysis seemed to show an extra, “sideways” motion of galaxies independent of the normal Hubble recession caused by the expansion of the universe. 

The paper got a cold reception and was rejected by both Astronomical Journal and Astrophysical Journal.