Carl Sagan

Known for ActingBorn 1934-11-09Died 1996-12-20Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Cosmos: Mundos Posibles

Owned & Operated

Cosmos

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Carl Sagan: A Cosmic Celebrity

The Farthest

Piece by Piece

Threads

Wanderers

Contact

The Reality of Me

The Universe

In Search of Ancient Astronauts

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Real History of Science Fiction

An Inconvenient Truth

NOVA

Who's Out There?

Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan

The Earth Day Special

Target... Earth?

God, the Universe and Everything Else

PBS News Hour

Together to Mars?

Bookworms

Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters

We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot

A Dialogue: A Conversation with Carl Sagan and Ted Turner

On the 8th Day

The Case of the Ancient Astronauts

The Violent Universe

The Phil Donahue Show

Pale Blue Dot