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Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect. Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Sagan licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Nov 9, 1924
Movie/TV Credits:
16
First Appeared:
In the movie Pale Blue Dot
Latest Project:
Movie Piece by Piece 2024-10-10
Known For
Poster of The Farthest
Poster of Wanderers
Poster of A Dialogue: A Conversation with Carl Sagan and Ted Turner
Poster of Pale Blue Dot
Filmography
Movie Pale Blue Dot Himself 2025
Movie Piece by Piece Carl Sagan (archival audio) 2024-10-10
Movie The Universe Self (Archive Footage) 2023-01-14
Movie The Farthest Himself (archive footage) 2018-03-15
Movie Wanderers Voice 2014-10-11
Series Cosmos Himself (archive footage) 2014-03-09
Movie The Reality of Me Self 2012-11-01
Movie The Earth Day Special Self 1990-04-22
Movie A Dialogue: A Conversation with Carl Sagan and Ted Turner Guest 1989-11-01
Movie God, the Universe and Everything Else Self 1988-01-01
Movie Together to Mars? Self - Moderator 1987-10-07
Series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Self - Host 1980-09-28
Movie Target... Earth? Self 1980-07-28
Movie Who's Out There? Himself 1975-01-01
Movie In Search of Ancient Astronauts Himself 1973-01-05
Movie The Violent Universe Narrator 1969-04-11