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Carl Edward Sagan (/ ˈ s eɪ ɡ ən /; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.
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May 27, 2024 · Carl Sagan, American astronomer and science writer. A popular and influential figure in the United States, he was controversial in scientific, political, and religious circles for his views on extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York City. Carl's family was Jewish. His father, Samuel Sagan, was an immigrant from the Russian Empire. Samuel was born in 1905 in a city called Kamianets-Podilskyi. The Russian Empire no longer exists, so today Kamianets-Podilskyi is in Ukraine. Samuel made clothes for a living. Carl's mother, Rachel Molly Gru...
He was well known as a writer who warned of the dangers of nuclear winter. He helped people learn about the atmosphere of Venus, seasonal changes on Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan. He showed that the atmosphere of Venus is very hot and dense. He also said that global warming was a growing, man-made danger like the natural development of Venus into a...
Sagan also believed that the Drake equation suggested that many kinds of intelligent life could form, but that the lack of evidence (the Fermi paradox) suggests that intelligent beings destroy themselves rather quickly. This made him keen to talk about ways that humanity could destroy itself, in the hope of avoiding such destruction. Under the name...
Sagan was very good at helping people to understand the cosmos. He gave the 1977/1978 Christmas Lectures for Young People at the Royal Institution. He wrote (with Ann Druyan, who became his third wife) and made the very popular thirteen-part PBS television series Cosmos; he also wrote books to help science become more popular (The Dragons of Eden, ...
After a long and difficult fight with myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62, on December 20, 1996, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. Sagan was very important, because he made science popular, and changed the way science was organized, and because he defended humanism, and argued against seeing ...
Apollo Achievement Award - National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationDistinguished Public Service - National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationSagan, Carl and Jonathon Norton Leonard and editors of Life, Planets. Time, Inc., 1966Sagan, Carl and I.S. Shklovskii, Intelligent Life in the Universe. Random House, 1966Sagan, Carl, Communicaton with Extraterrestrial Intelligence. MIT Press, 1973Sagan, Carl, et al. Mars and the Mind of Man. Harper & Row, 1973In Memory of Carl Sagan. Tributes by Tom McDonough, James Randi and Michael Shermer, and a selection of quotes from Sagan's works, published in Skeptic, Vol. 4, no. 4, 1996, pp. 10–17.Carl Sagan, Cornell astronomer, dies today (Dec. 20) in Seattle. Cornell Universitypress release on Sagan's death.Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about Carl Sagan, one of the most well-known scientists of the 1970s and 1980s. He studied extraterrestrial intelligence, worked with NASA, wrote several books and hosted the TV series Cosmos.
Learn about the life and achievements of Carl Sagan, a leading planetary scientist and popularizer of science. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA, a professor at Cornell University, and a founder of The Planetary Society.
Sagan was the most famous scientist in America—the face of science itself. Now “Cosmos” is back, thanks largely to Seth MacFarlane, creator of TV’s “Family Guy” and a space buff since ...
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on the 1985 U.S. bestseller list.
