Carl Sagan

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1924-11-09

Deathday 1996-12-20 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Carl Edward Sagan, Καρλ Σέιγκαν , Καρλ Έντουαρντ Σέιγκαν , Карл Эдвард Саган

Carl Sagan

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

Pale Blue Dot

as Himself

2024
Piece by Piece

as Carl Sagan (archival audio)

2023
The Universe

as Self (Archive Footage)

2018
The Farthest

as Himself (archive footage)

2014
Wanderers

as Voice

2014
The Real History of Science Fiction

as Himself (archive footage)

2014
Cosmos

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

2014
Cosmos

as Self (archive footage)

2012
1997
Carl Sagan: A Cosmic Celebrity

as Self (archive footage)

1987
Together to Mars?

as Self - Moderator

1980
1980
1975
Who's Out There?

as Himself

1975
PBS News Hour

as Self - Cosmos (archive footage)

1974
1969
1964
Horizon

as Self

Writer

2014
Cosmos

as Writer

1997
Contact

as Novel

1997
Contact

as Story

Producer

1997
Contact

as Co-Producer

Crew

2006

Creator