Carl Sagan
Astronomer and science communicator
Carl Sagan was an American scientist who studied the planets and explained science to the public. He wrote Cosmos and The Demon-Haunted World.
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American Born 1934 in Brooklyn, United States Died 1996
Influenced by Neil deGrasse Tyson
About Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan (1934 to 1996) was a professor of astronomy and space sciences at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. He took an active part in NASA's Mariner, Viking and Voyager programs, and he co-founded the Planetary Society and served as its first president. He helped write and narrated the documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which the book Cosmos accompanied. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book The Dragons of Eden. In The Demon-Haunted World he argued for skepticism and the scientific method. Sagan died in December 1996 at the age of 62.