Women Scientists Made Visible with Authors Olivia Campbell and Dava Sobel

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Join moderator Trisha Muro, Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing program alumna and freelance physics and astronomy writer, as she welcomes authors Olivia Campbell and Dava Sobel. Campbell and Sobel will discuss their books on extraordinary women scientists and share the obstacles the scientists overcame to practice their passion. The conversation will examine the power of storytelling to educate readers about science and history and will include the authors' surprising insights following deep archival research on their subjects.

Olivia Campbell, a graduate of the MA in Science Writing program, is drawn to stories at the juncture of women's history and medicine. She is the author of two books, Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History, released this past December, and Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine.

Dava Sobel is the author of eight books about historic scientific figures, including her recently released biography, The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science. Sobel's first book, Longitude, about the invention of instruments for calculating longitude, became a surprise bestseller and evolved into a film and TV series.

The talk will be moderated by Science Writing Program alumna Trisha Muro, a freelance writer who specializes in physics and astronomy. She is now under contract with Hopkins Press for her first book, a collection of stories that explain physics concepts through the lens of spaceflight missions.

This Women's History Month event is co-hosted by the Johns Hopkins MA in Writing and the MA in Science Writing programs as well as the Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.