Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
Autor/a de Contact
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Carl Sagan
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977) — Autor — 3,645 exemplars
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (1997) 2,354 exemplars
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (1985) 1,556 exemplars
The Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan 4 exemplars
Space Age Dreamer 3 exemplars
Cosmos, Episode 8 3 exemplars
Cosmos, Episode 3 3 exemplars
Cosmos, Episode 7 3 exemplars
Cosmos, Episode 13 3 exemplars
Origins of Life 3 exemplars
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 6, Episode 10-11 2 exemplars
COSMOS DISC 5 2 exemplars
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 7, Episode 12-13 2 exemplars
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan (2007-11-06) 2 exemplars
Carl Sagan's Cosmos [DVD] [1980] 2 exemplars
Cosmos, Episodes 5 & 6 2 exemplars
COSMOS DISC 3 2 exemplars
Works by Carl Sagan (Study Guide): Cosmos: a Personal Voyage, Pale Blue Dot, Contact, the Demon-Haunted World, the… (2010) 2 exemplars
Cosmos, Episode 5: Blues for a Red Planet 2 exemplars
Cosmos, Episodes 3 & 4 2 exemplars
Untitled on Mars 2 exemplars
Cosmos. capítulo 4. El filo de la eternidad 2 exemplars
Cosmos, Episodes 1 & 2 2 exemplars
Cosmos. capítulo 10. Cielo e infierno 2 exemplars
Cosmos. capítulo 9. La armonía de los mundos 2 exemplars
To Preserve A World Graced By Life 2 exemplars
sagan 2 exemplars
Carl Sagan: Broca's Brain : Reflections on the Romance of Science (Mass Market Paperback); 1993 Edition 1 exemplars
A glorious dawn [single] 1 exemplars
Experiments in Utopias 1 exemplars
The Variety of Supernatural Experience, excerpt NATURAL HISTORY, 105, no. 2, (1996): 16-17 1 exemplars
Cosmos 1980 publication. 1 exemplars
Cosmos. La vida de las estrellas 1 exemplars
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 exemplars
Cosmos: Carl Sagan [VHS 1, 2, and 5 of 7 Only] 1 exemplars
NOVA: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts 1 exemplars
Cosmos, Episodes 7 & 8 1 exemplars
Articles 1 exemplars
Reflections on the Universe 1 exemplars
Cosmos. capítulo 6. Enciclopedia galáctica 1 exemplars
Cosmos Boxed Set (Collector's Edition) [VHS] 1 exemplars
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 4, Episode 6-7 1 exemplars
COSMOS DISC2 1 exemplars
Cosmos, Episodes 11 & 12 — Autor — 1 exemplars
Cosmos, Episodes 9 & 10 1 exemplars
Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Disc 2, Episode 2-3 1 exemplars
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 exemplars
Obres associades
The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich Von Daniken (1976) — Pròleg — 64 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVI, No. 8 (August 1976) (1976) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCII, No. 2 (October 1973) (1973) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Life in the Universe: Scientific American : A Special Issue (Scientific American, a Special Issue) (1995) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space From Stalin to Star Wars (1994) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 19 exemplars
NOVA: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts [1978 TV episode] — Narrador — 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Sagan, Carl
- Nom oficial
- Sagan, Carl Edward
- Data de naixement
- 1934-11-09
- Data de defunció
- 1996-12-20
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca, New York, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Causa de la mort
- pneumonia
- Llocs de residència
- Ithaca, New York, USA
Rathway, New Jersey, USA - Educació
- University of Chicago (BA ∙ 1954 ∙ BS ∙ Physics ∙ 1955)
University of Chicago (MS ∙ Physics ∙ 1956)
University of Chicago (Ph.D ∙ Astronomy and Astrophysics ∙ 1960) - Professions
- astronomer
science writer
scientist
professor
television presenter
physicist - Relacions
- Margulis, Lynn (first wife)
Druyan, Ann (third wife)
Sagan, Dorion (son)
Sagan, Nick (son)
Salzman, Linda (second wife) - Organitzacions
- Cornell University
Harvard University
American Astronautical Society
American Astronomical Society
American Geophysical Union
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (mostra-les totes 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 - Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 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
- Biografia breu
- 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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- Obres
- 90
- També de
- 18
- Membres
- 42,256
- Popularitat
- #406
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 502
- ISBN
- 543
- Llengües
- 27
- Preferit
- 257
“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.… (més)