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Carl Sagan
AuthorBooks · Second hand1934-1996
American astronomer and science populariser, author of Cosmos and Contact. He was one of the most influential voices in planetary astronomy and in the defence of critical thinking in the 20th century.
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Birth
1934
Death
1996
First book
1966
Years writing
60
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 9 November 1934, into a Jewish family of Ukrainian descent.
He presented and co-wrote Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in 1980, PBS's most-watched series with over 500 million viewers in 60 countries.
He championed the famous Pale Blue Dot image taken by Voyager 1 from 6 billion kilometres away in 1990.
In 1995 he published The Demon-Haunted World, a manifesto against pseudoscience and in favour of the scientific method.
Asteroid 2709 Sagan and the Mars Pathfinder landing site, named the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, were named after him.