Dava Sobel
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| Born | June 15, 1947[1] The Bronx, New York City |
| Education | Bronx High School of Science |
| Alma mater | Binghamton University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, Klumpke-Roberts Award |
| Website | www |
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Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include
Biography
Sobel was born in
Her book
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
Asteroid
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.[6]
Publications
- Arthritis: What Works; Revolutionary Healing Approaches From An Unprecedented Nationwide Survey Of People With Arthritis. St. Martin's Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-312-92719-6.
- 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 Yearaward.
- 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)
- A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. Bloomsbury Publishing. October 4, 2011.
- The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (2016)
- The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science (2024)
Recognition
She was named a
References
- ^ Sobel, Dava. "Self-Portrait". Retrieved December 26, 2013.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Biography or Autobiography". Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ "Dava Sobel Biography". Archived from the original on December 6, 2011.
- PEN American Center. October 15, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
- The Jewish Week. New York City. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
- ^ a b "Transcript". Jennifer Byrne Presents: Dava Sobel. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
- ^ Moore, Patrick (September 2, 2005). "Review: The Planets by Dava Sobel". The Guardian.
- ^ Brown, Helen (October 11, 2011). "Review: A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel". The Telegraph.
- ^ "The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
- ^ "The Elements of Marie Curie". groveantlantic.com.
- ^ Zernike, Kate (October 10, 2024). "Book Review: 'The Elements of Marie Curie,' by Dava Sobel". The New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 2022". APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
External links
- Official website
- Dava Sobel at IMDb
- Podcast of Dava Sobel discussing The Origins of Longitude at the Shanghai International Literary Festival
- Appearances on C-SPAN
