Dava Sobel
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Dava Sobel, an East Hampton resident, is a highly acclaimed, award-winning author of six books, including best-sellers The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of Harvard University Took the Measure of the Stars; Longitude (on which a NOVA documentary and a four-hour mini-series were based), and The Planets. Dava was a 2000 Pulitzer finalist for her book, Galileo's Daughter, which served as the basis for an Emmy Award winning PBS documentary. She is currently Poetry Editor of Scientific American and formerly a science reporter for the New York Times. Dava has been a member of Hamptons Observatory’s Advisory Board since its inception.