Dava Sobel – The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Join us on January 9 at noon (MST) as we welcome special guest Dava Sobel to discuss her latest book The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. 

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Dava Sobel is an acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter. Her new book crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own.

Sobel is the author of the international bestseller Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s 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 Bradford Washburn Award, the Kumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. A former New York Times science reporter, and currently editor of the “Meter” poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island.