'Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy - no mean feat' New ScientistĪnyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuries.
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In her four decades as a science journalist she has written for many magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker, served as a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and Omni, and co-authored five books, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath, in England, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002. Sobel attended Antioch College and the City College of New York before receiving her bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969. A 1964 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Ms. Her most well kno Dava Sobel is an accomplished writer of popular expositions of scientific topics.
Dava Sobel is an accomplished writer of popular expositions of scientific topics.
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