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The Glass Universe

How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

The Glass Universe( )
Author: Sobel, Dava
ISBN:978-0-00-754818-7
Publication Date:Jan 2017
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Imprint:Fourth Estate
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $44.99
Book Description:

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science

Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies
Science / Space Science / Astronomy
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.9 x 24 x 3.1 cm
Book Weight:0.608 Kilograms
Author Biography
Sobel, Dava (Author)
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 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.

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