A propos de l'auteur
Dava Sobel was born in the Bronx, New York on June 15, 1947. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969. She is a former New York Times science reporter and has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, Life, Harvard Magazine, and The New Yorker. She has afficher plus written several science related books including Letters to Father, The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology and a 2000 Christopher Award. She has co-authored six books with astronomer Frank Drake including Is Anyone Out There? She also co-authored with William J. H. Andrewes The Illustrated Longitude. Because her work provides awareness of science and technology to the general public, she has received the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2001, the Bradford Washburn Award in 2001,the Klumpke-Roberts Award in 2008, and the Eduard Rhein Foundation in Germany in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Do not split into two authors. The author of the popular science books and the co-author of the backache books are one and the same (her website notes that she has written five books and co-written six books).
Crédit image: reading at National Book Festival By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62180034
Œuvres de Dava Sobel
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) 9,299 exemplaires, 184 critiques
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (2016) 769 exemplaires, 35 critiques
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos (2011) 642 exemplaires, 31 critiques
Arthritis, What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief For The Rest Of Your Life, Even After Drugs & Surgery Have Failed (1989) 96 exemplaires
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science (2024) 5 exemplaires
The Cornell Idea 2 exemplaires
1993 Space: Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose 1 exemplaire
The Last World 1 exemplaire
Star Watch: Man Stops Universe, Maybe 1 exemplaire
The Longitude Problem 1 exemplaire
Living science study guides astronomy: forms 3-4 1 exemplaire
Dava Sobel 1 exemplaire
Secrets of the Rings 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does (2012) — Avant-propos — 1,499 exemplaires, 63 critiques
Letters to Father : Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 (2001) — Directeur de publication — 272 exemplaires, 1 critique
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- Date de naissance
- 1947-06-15
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Études
- Bronx High School of Science, New York, New York, USA
Antioch College
City College of New York
State University of New York, Binghamton (B.A.|1969) - Professions
- science writer
journalist - Prix et distinctions
- National Science Board's Public Service Medal (2001)
Bradford Washburn Award (2001)
Klumpke-Roberts Award (2008)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) - Notice de désambigüisation
- Do not split into two authors. The author of the popular science books and the co-author of the backache books are one and the same (her website notes that she has written five books and co-written six books).
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Aussi par
- 9
- Membres
- 19,761
- Popularité
- #1,097
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 416
- ISBN
- 257
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 27
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