Imatge de l'autor

Carl Sagan (1934–1996)

Autor/a de Contact

90+ obres 42,256 Membres 502 Ressenyes 257 preferits

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

Contact (1985) 9,147 exemplars
Cosmos (1980) 8,277 exemplars
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) — Autor — 7,035 exemplars
Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) — Autor — 2,898 exemplars
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979) — Autor — 2,234 exemplars
The Cosmic Connection (1973) 1,005 exemplars
Comet (1985) 877 exemplars
Contact [1997 film] (1997) 367 exemplars
Intelligent Life in the Universe (1962) 290 exemplars
LIFE Science Library: Planets (1966) 144 exemplars
Cosmos {1980 TV series} (1970) 115 exemplars
UFO's: A Scientific Debate (1972) — Editor — 96 exemplars
Other Worlds (1975) 50 exemplars
Mars and the Mind of Man (1971) 41 exemplars
Life in the Universe (1987) 17 exemplars
Planetary Exploration (1970) 6 exemplars
The Burden of Skepticism (1987) 4 exemplars
Wonder And Skepticism (1995) 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
Cosmos Livro 1 (1991) 3 exemplars
Origins of Life 3 exemplars
COSMOS DISC 5 2 exemplars
COSMOS DISC 3 2 exemplars
Dunya'dan Fısıltılar (2020) 2 exemplars
Planetary atmospheres (2012) 2 exemplars
Cosmos(korean Version) (2006) 2 exemplars
Untitled on Mars 2 exemplars
sagan 2 exemplars
The Cosmosphere (1981) 1 exemplars
Blekitna kropka (2020) 1 exemplars
Dragons of Eden (1988) 1 exemplars
Articles 1 exemplars
Cosmos -Libro electrónico- (1985) 1 exemplars
COSMOS DISC2 1 exemplars
Cosmos, Episodes 11 & 12 — Autor — 1 exemplars
Definitions of Life (2010) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Història del temps (1988) — Introducció, algunes edicions14,148 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Col·laborador — 803 exemplars
The Faith Healers (1987) — Pròleg — 275 exemplars
Atheism: A Reader (2000) — Col·laborador — 181 exemplars
The Planets (1983) — Pròleg, algunes edicions83 exemplars
The Spear of Mars (1980) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
The Outer Edge (1996) — Introducció — 46 exemplars

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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.

Membres

Converses

Group Read, April 2016: Contact a 1001 Books to read before you die (abril 2016)

Ressenyes

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.
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nitrolpost | Hi ha 29 ressenyes més | Mar 19, 2024 |
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.
 
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | Hi ha 86 ressenyes més | Mar 4, 2024 |
 
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Moshepit20 | Hi ha 31 ressenyes més | Feb 28, 2024 |
This is a tribute to clear thinking – to using the tools of scientific reasoning and plain old skepticism to pick out what's real from the hoaxes, scams, and pseudoscience around us. Since it was written almost thirty years ago the examples used in the first part of the book are dated – faces on Mars, crop circles, alien abductions – but the methods it promotes are as relevant today as they were then. Where it hits its stride is in the latter chapters that describe how intellectual curiosity and scientific research have historically built on each other to create applications that were initially unimaginable. In the acknowledgments section Sagan explains how this was written over the course of nearly a decade. As a result it’s not a book to rush through, in fact it’s one worth rereading.… (més)
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wandaly | Hi ha 104 ressenyes més | Feb 9, 2024 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
90
També de
18
Membres
42,256
Popularitat
#406
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
502
ISBN
543
Llengües
27
Preferit
257

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