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Carl Edward Sagan was born in 1934 in Brooklyn, the son of a worshipful, overbearing mother, Rachel, and a hard-working garment industry manager, Samuel, a Ukrainian immigrant.
PALE BLUE DOT. Carl Sagan lobbied NASA for ten years to command the Voyager 1 spacecraft to turn its camera homeward to take one last picture from beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. On Valentine’s Day in 1990 it did so, revealing our world to appear as but a single pixel from that distance. Carl wrote the following mediation on the ...
Carl Sagan played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA beginning in the 1950s, he briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets.
Mar 16, 2014 · Sagan, here in 1974, was a professor of astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, for much of his career. Scientist. "He worked very hard, 18-hour days. He had a tremendous appetite for ...
Items from Carl Sagan's papers illustrate the many facets of his career. More broadly, these items speak to the range of roles scientists play in society. Science Communicator. Most Americans know Carl Sagan best as a public figure and science communicator. For Sagan an interest in science communication came early.
Carl Edward Sagan ['seɪɡən] ( 9. marraskuuta 1934 – 20. joulukuuta 1996) oli yhdysvaltalainen tähtitieteilijä, planeettatutkija, kosmologi, astrofyysikko, astrobiologi, kirjailija ja tieteen yleistajuistaja. Suurimman osan urastaan hän työskenteli Cornellin yliopistossa, jonka professorina hän toimi vuodesta 1971 aina kuolemaansa asti.
Carl Sagan. Carl Edward Sagan ( / ˈseɪɡən /; 9 tháng 11 năm 1934 – 20 tháng 12 năm 1996) là nhà thiên văn học, vật lý thiên văn, vũ trụ học, sinh học vũ trụ, tác giả sách, nhà phổ biến khoa học và là nhà phát ngôn khoa học người Mỹ. Đóng góp quan trọng nhất của ông là cho việc ...
