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'''Dava Sobel''' (born June 15, 1947,<ref name="selfportrait">{{cite web|title = Self-Portrait|last = Sobel|first = Dava|url=http://davasobel.com/?page_id=547|accessdate=December 26, 2013}}</ref> [[The Bronx]]) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her book ''[[Galileo's Daughter]]: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love'' was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography-or-Autobiography | title = The Pulitzer Prizes: Biography or Autobiography | accessdate = 2015-01-13}}</ref> She graduated from [[The Bronx High School of Science]] and [[Binghamton University]]. Her works include:
'''Dava Sobel''' (born June 15, 1947,<ref name="selfportrait">{{cite web|title = Self-Portrait|last = Sobel|first = Dava|url=http://davasobel.com/?page_id=547|accessdate=December 26, 2013}}</ref> [[The Bronx]]) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her book ''[[Galileo's Daughter]]: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love'' was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Biography-or-Autobiography | title = The Pulitzer Prizes: Biography or Autobiography | accessdate = 2015-01-13}}</ref> She graduated from [[The Bronx High School of Science]] and [[Binghamton University]]. Her works include:


* ''[[Longitude (book)|Longitude]]: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time'' (1995) – the genius in question was [[John Harrison]], who spent decades trying to convince the [[British Admiralty]] of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining [[longitude]] when at sea in order to win the [[longitude prize]]. ISBN 1-85702-571-7. The book itself won the 1997 [[British Book of the Year]] award.
* ''[[Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time]]'' (1995) – the genius in question was [[John Harrison]], who spent decades trying to convince the [[British Admiralty]] of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining [[longitude]] when at sea in order to win the [[longitude prize]]. ISBN 1-85702-571-7. The book itself won the 1997 [[British Book of the Year]] award.
* ''[[Galileo's Daughter]]: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love'' (2000) ISBN 0-14-028055-3
* ''[[Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love]]'' (2000) ISBN 0-14-028055-3
* ''The Best American Science Writing'' 2004 (editor)
* ''The Best American Science Writing'' 2004 (editor)
* ''[[The Planets (book)|The Planets]]: A discourse on the discovery, science, history and mythology, of the [[planet]]s in our solar system, with one chapter devoted to each of the celestial spheres.'' (2005) ISBN 1-85702-850-3
* ''[[The Planets: A discourse on the discovery, science, history and mythology, of the [[planet]]s in our solar system, with one chapter devoted to each of the celestial spheres.'' (2005) ISBN 1-85702-850-3
* ''A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos'' (2011) ISBN 978-0-8027-1793-1
* ''A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos'' (2011) ISBN 978-0-8027-1793-1


Revision as of 03:17, 26 May 2015

Dava Sobel speaking at a Yale event

Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947,[1] The Bronx) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her book Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[2] She graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. Her works include:

Longitude was dramatised for television by Charles Sturridge and Granada Film in 1999, and was shown in the United States by A&E. Michael Gambon played John Harrison, and Jeremy Irons played Rupert Gould, who restored Harrison's timepieces for posterity in the mid-20th century.

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.[3]

She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002.[4] The asteroid 30935 Davasobel is named after her.[5]

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 has seen eight, and planned to see the November 2012 total solar eclipse in Australia.[6]

References

  1. ^ Sobel, Dava. "Self-Portrait". Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  2. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Biography or Autobiography". Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  3. ^ "Announcing the 2012 PEN Literary Award Recipients". PEN American Center. October 15, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  4. ^ "Dava Sobel Biography".
  5. ^ "30935 Davasobel", Jet Propulsion Laboratory Small-Body Database Browser
  6. ^ "Jennifer Byrne Presents: Dava Sobel". Retrieved August 29, 2012.
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