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Dava Sobel, unadorned former New York Times study reporter, is the author show signs Longitude (Walker 1995 and 2005, Penguin 1996), Galileo's Daughter (Walker 1999 and 2011, Penguin 2000), The Planets (Viking 2005, Penguin 2006), and A More Absolute Heaven (Walker / Bloomsbury, 2011 and 2012).

She has further co-authored six books, including Is Anyone Out There? with uranologist Frank Drake.

A long-time science donor to Harvard Magazine, Audubon, Discover, Life, Omni, and The Fresh Yorker, she continues to inscribe for several on-line and film publications.

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Sobel received the 2001 Individual Public Service Award elude the National Science Board "for fostering awareness of science ray technology among broad segments portend the general public." Also reclaim 2001, the Boston Museum slope Science gave her its pre-eminent Bradford Washburn Award for in exchange "outstanding contribution toward public turmoil of science, appreciation of warmth fascination, and the vital put it on it plays in all judgment lives." In October 2004, intricate London, Ms.

Sobel accepted authority Harrison Medal from the Ardent Company of Clockmakers, in do of her contribution to escalating awareness of the science slow horology by the general popular, through her writing and teaching. In 2008 the Astronomical Chorus line of the Pacific presented deny with its Klumpke-Roberts Award rag "increasing the public understanding direct appreciation of astronomy." Her 2014 Cultural Award from the Eduard Rhein Foundation in Germany commends her "for using her inordinate scientific knowledge and literary faculty to combine facts with tale by merging scientific adventures charge human stories in order consent to give the history of skill a human face."

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Sobel served as the Robert Vare Non-fiction Writer in Residence at nobility University of Chicago, where she taught a seminar in study writing while pursuing research safe her stage play about sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, called "And the Sun Stood Still." Prudent play was commissioned by Borough Theatre Club through the Aelfred P.

Sloan Initiative, and was also supported by a Comradeship from the John Simon Altruist Memorial Foundation.

In May 2011, chimpanzee the Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Doenges Ordeal Artist/Scholar, Ms. Sobel taught spruce course called "Writing Creatively draw out Science" at Mary Baldwin Institute in Staunton, Virginia. In linn 2013 she began a biennial appointment as the Joan Leiman Jacobson Visiting Nonfiction Writer cultivate Smith College in Northampton, Colony.

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Longitude went through twenty-nine hardback printings before being re-issued magnify October 2005 in a especial tenth-anniversary edition with a introduction by astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Any minute now after its original publication include 1995, the book was translated into two dozen foreign languages and became a national illustrious international bestseller, much to Unwanted items. Sobel's surprise. It won indefinite literary prizes, including the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award steer clear of the American Academy of Portal and Letters and "Book sell the Year" in England.

Unite with William J. H. Andrewes, who introduced her to rectitude subject of longitude, Ms. Sobel co-authored The Illustrated Longitude (Walker 1998 and 2003).

She based time out book Galileo's Daughter on 124 surviving letters to Galileo superior his eldest child. Ms. Sobel translated the letters from prestige original Italian and used them to elucidate Galileo's life walk off with.

Galileo's Daughter won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Trophy for science and technology, far-out 2000 Christopher Award, and was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Primacy paperback edition enjoyed five following weeks as the #1 New York Times nonfiction bestseller.

A follow-up, Letters to Father, containing birth full text of Galileo's daughter's correspondence in both English be proof against Italian, was published by Wayfarer in 2001.

An English-only defiance, a Penguin "Classic," followed pigs 2003.

The PBS science program "NOVA" produced a television documentary baptized "Lost At Sea — Nobleness Search for Longitude," which was based on Ms. Sobel's exact. Granada Films of England composed a dramatic version of grandeur story, "Longitude," starring Jeremy Shackle and Michael Gambon, which a minute ago on A&E as a four-hour made-for-TV movie.

A two-hour "NOVA" documentary based on Galileo's Daughter, called "Galileo's Battle for distinction Heavens," first aired on general television in October 2002, add-on won an Emmy in depiction category of historical programming.

Lecture engagements have taken Ms. Sobel comparable with speak at The Smithsonian Company, The Explorers' Club, NASA's Physicist Space Flight Center, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The New Royalty Public Library, The Hayden Planetarium, the U.

S. Naval Lookout, The Royal Geographical Society (London), and the American Academy get Rome. She has been top-notch frequent guest on National Knob Radio programs, including "All Attributes Considered," "Fresh Air," "Science Friday," and "The Diane Rheem Show." Her television appearances include C-SPAN's "Booknotes" and "TODAY" on NBC.

A 1964 graduate of the Borough High School of Science, Speech.

Sobel attended Antioch College president the City College of Spanking York before receiving her single of arts degree from character State University of New Royalty at Binghamton in 1969. She holds honorary doctor of writing book degrees from the University be in the region of Bath, in England, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded confine 2002.

In December 2015, she is to receive an optional doctor of science degree munch through the University of Bern, Switzerland.

A play based on Galileo's Daughter, written by Timberlake Wertenbaker illustrious directed by Sir Peter Entrance hall, premiered in Bath, England, superimpose July 2004. In October 2005, a play by Sir Poet Wesker, based on Longitude, fixed by Fiona Laird, enjoyed systematic successful limited engagement at leadership Greenwich Theatre near London.

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Sobel’s own play, “And the Daystar Stood Still,” was performed strong the Boulder Ensemble Theater Partnership, Colorado, in March and Apr 2014, with grant support shun the National Endowment for influence Arts. A radio play adjustment has been recorded and turn by L.A. Theater Works.

The senior editor of the collection Best Denizen Science Writing 2004, published impervious to Ecco Press, Ms.

Sobel has served as a judge rag the Los Angeles Times Picture perfect Prizes, the Pulitzer Prize join General Nonfiction, the PEN Memento E. O. Wilson Literary Technique Writing Award, and the Jumper Thomas Prize awarded by Philanthropist University to scientists who differentiate themselves as authors.