How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller Longitude and Pulitzer Prize finalists Galileo’s Daughter, A More Perfect Heaven and The Glass Universe. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Kumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honours. Her latest book is The Elements of Marie Curie. 

Sarah Kanowski studied English at the University of Oxford, where she wrote a thesis on the Mosley family. In Hobart she edited the literary magazine Island, until sun and grandparents beckoned her back to Brisbane. She has presented Books and Arts on Radio National and currently presents Conversations twice-weekly.