Dava Sobel | Elements of Marie Curie | 5x15

5x15 is back at The Tabernacle in October with a fantastic line-up of speakers. Join us for an evening of gripping stories about human rights and trailblazing lives; the murky, intoxicating world of finance, the moving journey of a rescue dog from Romania, and one of the most notorious murder cases of the twentieth century...

Dava 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 honours. A former New York Times science reporter and current editor of the “Meter” poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island. Her new book, Elements of Marie Curie, illuminates the trailblazing life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time.

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