July 15, 2025 Via Zoom
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The Far Out Journal Club is produced by HAL member Rich Russin and hosted by AAC past president Terry Smiljanich. The Journal Club is meant to have a personal, in-depth visit with the authors, artists, musicians, curators, and other cultural icons who bring us the vast world of cultural science and science fiction.
This is the 6th meeting and features Dava Sobel for an online conversation about her career and the very popular books she has written. Her stories take readers on a trip back in time, placing you squarely in the center of major discoveries as they unfold. Backed by masterful research, she brings you the story behind the story.
Biography:
- Longitude_ (Walker 1995, Bloomsbury 2005)
- Galileo’s Daughter_ (Walker 1999 and 2011)
- The Planets (Viking 2005, Penguin 2006)
- A More Perfect Heaven (Walker/Bloomsbury 2011 and 2012)
- And the Sun Stood Still (Bloomsbury 2016)
- The Glass Universe (Viking 2016, Penguin 2017)
- The elements of Marie Curie (Grove/Atlantic 2024)
Awards:
- 2001 Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board “for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public.”
- 2001 Bradford Washburn Award from the Boston Museum of Science for her “outstanding contribution toward public understanding of science, appreciation of its fascination, and the vital roles it plays in all our lives.”
- 2004 Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, London, in recognition of her contribution to increasing awareness of the science of horology by the general public.
- 2008 Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for “increasing the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy.”
- 2014 Cultural Award from the Eduard Rhein Foundation of Germany “for using her profound scientific knowledge and literary talent to combine facts with fiction by merging scientific adventures and human stories in order to give the history of science a human face.”
