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Presentation by Sobel on The Glass Universe, January 19, 2017, C-SPAN Presentation by Sobel on The Planets, November 15, 2005, C-SPAN Presentation by Sobel on Letters to Father, December 7, 2001, C-SPAN Presentation by Sobel on Galileo's Daughter, November 19, 2000, C-SPAN Presentation by Sobel on Galileo's Daughter, December 14, 1999, C-SPAN Presentation by Sobel on Longitude, June 17, 1997, C-SPANīooknotes interview with Sobel on Longitude, January 17, 1999, C-SPAN As of August 2012 she had seen eight, and planned to see the November 2012 total solar eclipse in Australia. Sobel states she is a chaser of solar eclipses and that 'it's the closest thing to witnessing a miracle'. The asteroid 30935 Davasobel is named after her. Sobel is the niece of journalist Ruth Gruber and the cousin of epidemiologist David Michaels.ĭava Sobel in November 2007 Legacy

Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012. She taught a one-quarter seminar on writing about science. Sobel made her first foray into teaching at the University of Chicago as the Vare Writer-in-Residence in the winter of 2006. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002. Her book Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The story was made into a television movie, of the same name by Charles Sturridge and Granada Film in 1999, and was shown in the United States by A&E. She wrote Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time in 1995.

She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University.

Sobel was born in The Bronx, New York City. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison Galileo's Daughter, about 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.

Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics.

Longitude by dava sobel