Carl Sagan
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer who is best known for making astronomy popular to the public and writing over 600 scientific papers, as well as more than 20 books on astronomy and natural sciences. He is also known as "the astronomer of the people" for this reason. Another reason he is so well-known is that he wrote and narrated the 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage".
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The Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science - front.
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Awards
Sagan won several awards in his life, some of which are: -Klumpke-Roberts Award in 1947 -Peabody Award for Cosmos in 1981 -Hugo Award for Cosmos in 1981 -Public Welfare Medal in 1994. Today, there are awards named after Sagan - the Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, the Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science and the and the Carl Sagan Memorial Award. |
The Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science - back.
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Death
Carl Sagan died on December 20, 1996 of pneumonia at age 62, after suffering from myelodysplasia (bone marrow disease) for two years. He had had three bone marrow transplants prior to his death. Carl Sagan's last interview.
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Stone dedicated to Carl Sagan in the Celebrity Path of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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