Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
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Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Carl Sagan
Los dragones del Edén : especulaciones sobre la evolución de la inteligencia humana (1977) — Autor — 3,601 copias
The Music of Cosmos: Selections from the Score of the Television Series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan 4 copias
Space Age Dreamer 3 copias
Cosmos, Episode 8 3 copias
Cosmos, Episode 3 3 copias
Cosmos, Episode 7 3 copias
Cosmos, Episode 13 3 copias
Origins of Life 3 copias
COSMOS DISC 5 2 copias
Cosmos [Box Set] 2 copias
Carl Sagan's Cosmos [DVD] [1980] 2 copias
Cosmos, Episodes 5 & 6 2 copias
COSMOS DISC 3 2 copias
Works by Carl Sagan (Study Guide): Cosmos: a Personal Voyage, Pale Blue Dot, Contact, the Demon-Haunted World, the… (2010) 2 copias
Untitled on Mars 2 copias
Cosmos, Episodes 3 & 4 2 copias
Cosmos, Episodes 1 & 2 2 copias
To Preserve A World Graced By Life 2 copias
sagan 2 copias
Cosmos. La vida de las estrellas 1 copia
Cosmos, Episodes 7 & 8 1 copia
Experiments in Utopias 1 copia
Billions & billions 1 copia
Cosmos, Episodes 11 & 12 — Autor — 1 copia
Cosmos, Episodes 9 & 10 1 copia
COSMOS DISC2 1 copia
Reflections on the Universe 1 copia
Articles 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich Von Daniken (1976) — Prólogo — 64 copias
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVI, No. 8 (August 1976) (1976) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCII, No. 2 (October 1973) (1973) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
Life in the Universe: Scientific American : A Special Issue (Scientific American, a Special Issue) (1995) — Contribuidor — 20 copias
Aventuras y desventuras de un científico soviético desde Stalin a la guerra de las galaxias (1994) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 19 copias
NOVA: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts [1978 TV episode] — Narrador — 3 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Sagan, Carl Edward
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1934-11-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1996-12-20
- Lugar de sepultura
- Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca, New York, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- EE.UU.
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- pneumonia
- Lugares de residencia
- Ithaca, New York, USA
Rathway, New Jersey, USA - Educación
- University of Chicago (BS ∙ Physics ∙ 1955)
University of Chicago (MS ∙ Physics ∙ 1956)
University of Chicago (PhD ∙ Astronomy and Astrophysics ∙ 1960) - Ocupaciones
- astronomer
science writer
scientist
professor
television presenter - Relaciones
- Margulis, Lynn (first wife)
Druyan, Ann (third wife)
Sagan, Dorion (son)
Sagan, Nick (son)
Salzman, Linda (second wife) - Organizaciones
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Astronautical Society
American Astronomical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Philosophical Society (mostrar todos 17)
American Physical Society
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
Harvard University
Cornell University - Premios y honores
- NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Emmy (Outstanding Individual Achievement, 1981)
Emmy (Outstanding Informational Series, 1981)
Humanist of the Year (1981)
John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award
Joseph Priestley Award (mostrar todos 11)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal (Awarded by the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation)
Masursky Award (American Astronomical Society)
Lowell Thomas Award (Explorers Club)
Oersted Medal (1990, American Association of Physics Teachers)
Public Welfare Medal (1994) - Agente
- Morton Janklow
- Biografía breve
- 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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