New York (USA), 1947

American science reporter and reporter. Graduated in 1964 from the Bronx High School of Science, Sobel is an honorary professor of Letters at the University of Bath (England), and at Middlebury College in Vermont (USA). She was a science reporter for the New York Times, and is known for works such as The Daughter of Galileo or Length, which tells how the first chronometer that allowed sailors to determine length was obtained, and is considered one of the best popular texts for today. In Los Planetas, Sobel follows the path that arises from the child's fascination with the brothers of the Earth and reaches the last entanglement about the disqualification of Pluto as a planet, narrated in a postscript dated 2006.

Awarded the prestigious Public Service Award of the National Science Board, in June 2006 she achieved a great privilege: to be the only non-scientific member elected to form part of the Planets Definition Committee of the International Astronomical Union (UAI). Sobel is the editor of the Best American Science Writing 2004 collection, published by Ecco Press. He has also participated in juries as important as the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction books, and the Rockefeller University Lewis Thomas Prize for scientists who distinguish themselves as authors. Currently his book The Crystal Universe is nominated for the best science book of the 2016 PEN / E. O. Wilson Prize for scientific literature.