Name Dava Sobel | Role Writer | |
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Born June 15, 1947 (age 76) ( 1947-06-15 ) The Bronx, New York City Education The Bronx High School of Science, Antioch College, Binghamton University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, Klumpke-Roberts Award Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Books Longitude: The True Story of a, Galileo's Daughter: A Historic, A More Perfect Heaven, The Planets, Arthritis Similar People John Harrison, Maria Celeste, Frank Drake, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus | ||
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Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947, The Bronx, New York) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics.
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Dava sobel at the nys writers institute in 2005
Biography
Sobel was born on June 15, 1947 in the Bronx, New York City. She graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. She wrote Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time in 1995. 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. Her book Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002.
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.
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Legacy
The asteroid 30935 Davasobel is named after her.
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.