Dava Sobel is author of several books, including The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars and The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. She’s based in New York, New York.
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Marie Curie And The Women Scientists Who Became Her Legacy
A new book looks at the life of Marie Curie through the lens of some of the 45 women who passed through her laboratory.
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The Stars Behind Our Stellar Classification System
Author Dava Sobel explains how a group of women astronomers helped develop the classification system that scientists use to identify stars today.
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The Female Astronomers Who Captured the Stars
At the beginning of the 20th century, a team of female astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory worked to classify the stars.