Dava Sobel

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Dava Sobel
Sobel in 2015
Born (1947-06-15) June 15, 1947 (age 76)[1]
The Bronx, New York City
EducationBronx High School of Science
Alma materBinghamton University
Websitewww.davasobel.com Edit this at Wikidata
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Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include

Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers
.

Biography

Sobel was born in

A&E
.

Her book

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[2]

Dava Sobel in November 2007

She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002.[3]

Sobel made her first foray into teaching at the University of Chicago as the Vare Writer-in-Residence in the winter of 2006. She taught a one-quarter seminar on writing about science.

She served as a judge for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012.[4]

Sobel is the niece of journalist Ruth Gruber[5] and the cousin of epidemiologist David Michaels.

Legacy

The

30935 Davasobel is named after her.[6]

Sobel states she is a chaser of solar eclipses and that "it's the closest thing to witnessing a miracle". As of August 2012 she had seen eight, and planned to see the November 2012 total solar eclipse in Australia.[7]

Publications

External videos
video icon Presentation by Sobel on Longitude, June 17, 1997, C-SPAN
video icon Booknotes interview with Sobel on Longitude, January 17, 1999, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Sobel on Galileo's Daughter, December 14, 1999, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Sobel on Galileo's Daughter, November 19, 2000, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Sobel on Letters to Father, December 7, 2001, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Sobel on The Planets, November 15, 2005, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Sobel on The Glass Universe, January 19, 2017, C-SPAN
  • Arthritis: What Works; Revolutionary Healing Approaches From An Unprecedented Nationwide Survey Of People With Arthritis. St. Martin's Press. 1992.
  • Arthritis: What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief for the Rest of Your Life, Even After Drugs and Surgery Have Failed. St. Martin's Press. 2015. ASIN 1250068681.
  • Backache: What Exercises Work. St. Martin's Press. 1996.
  • British Book of the Year
    award.
  • ISBN 0-14-028055-3
  • The Best American Science Writing 2004 (editor)
    OCLC 916515131
  • The Planets: A discourse on the discovery, science, history and mythology, of the planets in our solar system, with one chapter devoted to each of the celestial spheres. (2005)
    OCLC 77646686[8]
  • A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. Bloomsbury Publishing. October 4, 2011.
    OCLC 819387028[9]
  • The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (2016)
    OCLC 972263666[10]

Recognition

She was named a

Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022 "for outstanding writings covering many centuries of key developments in physics and astronomy and the people central to those developments".[11]

References

  1. ^ Sobel, Dava. "Self-Portrait". Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  2. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Biography or Autobiography". Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  3. ^ "Dava Sobel Biography". Archived from the original on December 6, 2011.
  4. PEN American Center
    . October 15, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  5. The Jewish Week
    . New York City. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  6. ^ "30935 Davasobel", Jet Propulsion Laboratory Small-Body Database Browser
  7. ^ "Transcript". Jennifer Byrne Presents: Dava Sobel. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  8. ^ Moore, Patrick (September 2, 2005). "Review: The Planets by Dava Sobel". The Guardian.
  9. ^ Brown, Helen (October 11, 2011). "Review: A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel". The Telegraph.
  10. ^ "The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  11. ^ "Fellows nominated in 2022". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved October 19, 2022.

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