Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
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A respected planetary scientist best known outside the field for his popularizations of astronomy, Carl Sagan was born in New York City on November 9, 1934. He attended the University of Chicago, where he received a B.A. in 1954, a B.S. in 1955, and a M.S. in 1956 in physics as well as a Ph.D. in vis mere 1960 in astronomy and astrophysics. He has several early scholarly achievements including the experimental demonstration of the synthesis of the energy-carrying molecule ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in primitive-earth experiments. Another was the proposal that the greenhouse effect explained the high temperature of the surface of Venus. He was also one of the driving forces behind the mission of the U.S. satellite Viking to the surface of Mars. He was part of a team that investigated the effects of nuclear war on the earth's climate - the "nuclear winter" scenario. Sagan's role in developing the "Cosmos" series, one of the most successful series of any kind to be broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System, and his book The Dragons of Eden (1977) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. He also wrote the novel Contact, which was made into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He died from pneumonia on December 20, 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Carl Sagan
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977) — Forfatter — 3,659 eksemplarer
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (1997) 2,360 eksemplarer
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (1985) 1,561 eksemplarer
The Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan 4 eksemplarer
Space Age Dreamer 3 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episode 8 3 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episode 3 3 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episode 7 3 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episode 13 3 eksemplarer
Origins of Life 3 eksemplarer
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 6, Episode 10-11 2 eksemplarer
COSMOS DISC 5 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 7, Episode 12-13 2 eksemplarer
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan (2007-11-06) 2 eksemplarer
Carl Sagan's Cosmos [DVD] [1980] 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episodes 5 & 6 2 eksemplarer
COSMOS DISC 3 2 eksemplarer
Works by Carl Sagan (Study Guide): Cosmos: a Personal Voyage, Pale Blue Dot, Contact, the Demon-Haunted World, the… (2010) 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episode 5: Blues for a Red Planet 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episodes 3 & 4 2 eksemplarer
Untitled on Mars 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos. capítulo 4. El filo de la eternidad 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos, Episodes 1 & 2 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos. capítulo 10. Cielo e infierno 2 eksemplarer
Cosmos. capítulo 9. La armonía de los mundos 2 eksemplarer
To Preserve A World Graced By Life 2 eksemplarer
sagan 2 eksemplarer
Carl Sagan: Broca's Brain : Reflections on the Romance of Science (Mass Market Paperback); 1993 Edition 1 eksemplar
A glorious dawn [single] 1 eksemplar
Experiments in Utopias 1 eksemplar
The Variety of Supernatural Experience, excerpt NATURAL HISTORY, 105, no. 2, (1996): 16-17 1 eksemplar
Cosmos 1980 publication. 1 eksemplar
Cosmos. La vida de las estrellas 1 eksemplar
コスモス(宇宙) 第4巻 : 果てしない宇宙へ向かって : 過去と未来へのタイムトラベル 1 eksemplar
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 1 eksemplar
Cosmos: Carl Sagan [VHS 1, 2, and 5 of 7 Only] 1 eksemplar
NOVA: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts 1 eksemplar
Cosmos, Episodes 7 & 8 1 eksemplar
Articles 1 eksemplar
Reflections on the Universe 1 eksemplar
Cosmos. capítulo 6. Enciclopedia galáctica 1 eksemplar
Cosmos Boxed Set (Collector's Edition) [VHS] 1 eksemplar
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 4, Episode 6-7 1 eksemplar
COSMOS DISC2 1 eksemplar
Cosmos, Episodes 11 & 12 — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Cosmos, Episodes 9 & 10 1 eksemplar
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 2, Episode 2-3 1 eksemplar
コスモス(宇宙) 第3巻 : 人類と宇宙のかかわりあい : 人間と異星人を形づくるもの 1 eksemplar
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Hawkings univers : fra big bang til sorte huller (1988) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 14,231 eksemplarer
The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich Von Daniken (1976) — Forord — 65 eksemplarer
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVI, No. 8 (August 1976) (1976) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCII, No. 2 (October 1973) (1973) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
Life in the Universe: Scientific American : A Special Issue (Scientific American, a Special Issue) (1995) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space From Stalin to Star Wars (1994) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 19 eksemplarer
NOVA: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts [1978 TV episode] — Fortæller — 3 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Sagan, Carl
- Juridisk navn
- Sagan, Carl Edward
- Fødselsdato
- 1934-11-09
- Dødsdag
- 1996-12-20
- Begravelsessted
- Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca, New York, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Dødsårsag
- pneumonia
- Bopæl
- Ithaca, New York, USA
Rathway, New Jersey, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Chicago (BA ∙ 1954 ∙ BS ∙ Physics ∙ 1955)
University of Chicago (MS ∙ Physics ∙ 1956)
University of Chicago (Ph.D ∙ Astronomy and Astrophysics ∙ 1960) - Erhverv
- astronomer
science writer
scientist
professor
television presenter
physicist - Relationer
- Margulis, Lynn (first wife)
Druyan, Ann (third wife)
Sagan, Dorion (son)
Sagan, Nick (son)
Salzman, Linda (second wife) - Organisationer
- Cornell University
Harvard University
American Astronautical Society
American Astronomical Society
American Geophysical Union
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (vis alle 15)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Children's Health Fund Advisory Board
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CISCOP)
Council for a Livable World
Council on Foreign Relations
Federation of American Scientists
Guggenheim Foundation
International Academy of Humanism
Planetary Society - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fellow, American Physical Society (1989)
American Philosophical Society (1995)
International Space Hall of Fame (2004)
Pulitzer Prize (1978)
John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award (1982)
Joseph Priestley Award (1976) (vis alle 32)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal (Awarded by the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation, 1987)
Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science (1991)
Explorers Club, Lowell Thomas Award (1980)
Oersted Medal (1990, American Association of Physics Teachers)
Public Welfare Medal (1994)
NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1977)
Emmy (Outstanding Individual Achievement, 1981)
Emmy (Outstanding Informational Series, 1981)
Humanist of the Year (1981)
Hugo Award (1981, 1988)
Isaac Asimov Award (1994)
Peabody Award (1980)
Klumpke-Roberts Award (1974)
Golden Plate Award (1975)
Locus Award (1986)
Grand-Cross, Order of Saint James of the Sword (1998)
Pantheon of Skeptics (2011)
NASA Apollo Achievement Award (1970)
Prix Galabert (1973)
Peter Lavan Award (1984)
New Priorities Award (1984)
Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize Award (1984)
SANE National Peace Award (1984)
Olive Branch Award (1984, 1986, 1989)
Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest (1985)
Nahum Goldmann Medal (1986) - Agent
- Morton Janklow
- Kort biografi
- Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which has been seen by more than 500 million people in over 60 countries.[2] A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 film of the same name. During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method.
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A long time ago, I read Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. It is proof that science writing can be Literature. I am so in awe of this masterpiece that I feel the only way to do it justice is to quote the master.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions,
ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every
king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a
mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely
distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there
is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.” Since global warming has become the clear and present danger of the day, the former has become ominous indeed.… (mere)
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions,
ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every
king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a
mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely
distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there
is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.” Since global warming has become the clear and present danger of the day, the former has become ominous indeed.… (mere)
This must be one of the most influential books I have ever read. I read it for the first time when I was a teenager when I read more than I do today and was a lot less forgiving. I loved it to bits and I still do. It is especially comforting to go back to it in 2022, for obvious reasons.
I wish we had people like Carl Sagan in public space today. His expertise and sensibility are still unmatched.
I wish we had people like Carl Sagan in public space today. His expertise and sensibility are still unmatched.
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The book is well written and deeply personal. He touches on the aspects of his youth, his family and the ideas that drew him to the stars. The stuff we are all made of.… (mere)