Carl Sagan
Geboren: November 09, 1934 – Brooklyn, New York, United States
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator who made complex ideas accessible to broad audiences. He authored Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot, and wrote The Dragons of Eden, which won the Pulitzer Prize. As host of the television series Cosmos, he inspired millions of viewers worldwide to engage with science.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn in 1934 and grew up in a working-class Jewish family that encouraged curiosity, reading, and faith in public education. Childhood visits to the 1939 New York World’s Fair and early encounters with astronomy helped shape his sense that science could enlarge ordinary life. He studied at the University of Chicago, earning degrees in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics, and developed the broad intellectual style that later defined his public voice. After research and teaching posts at Harvard and elsewhere, he joined Cornell University, where he became a professor and one of the most recognizable scientific figures of the twentieth century.
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Stimmen der Community
"Carl Sagan, 62, the charismatic apostle of popular science"
— The Washington Post
"Carl Sagan is very often right and always interesting"
— TIME
"Planetary scientist and broadcaster Carl Sagan influenced some of NASA’s planetary missions"
— Nature
"Carl Sagan, the astronomer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and legendary popularizer of science"
— PBS NOVA
"Carl Sagan was arguably the greatest science communicator of our time"
— The Guardian
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— CBS News
"Carl Sagan helped broaden the reach of science to millions of people"
— Barack Obama
"Carl Sagan has probably done more than anyone in the United States today to popularize the humanity of science"
— The Christian Science Monitor