Dava Sobel Collection

Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist GalileoGs Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, And the Sun Stood Still and The Glass Universe, and co-author of The Illustrated Longitude. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, and the Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific among other honours. A former New York Times science reporter, she originated and continues to edit the monthly Meter poetry column in Scientific American.