Contact book carl sagan biography
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Carl Sagan
(1934-1996)
Who Was Carl Sagan?
Astronomer Carl Sagan graduated from the University of Chicago, where he studied planets and explored theories of extraterrestrial intelligence. He was named director of Cornell’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies in 1968 and worked with NASA on several projects. An anti-nuclear activist, Sagan introduced the idea of “nuclear winter” in 1983. He wrote one novel, several books and academic papers and the TV series Cosmos, which was reborn on TV in 2014.
Early Years
Carl Edward Sagan was born on November 9, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, the first of two children. Sagan’s interest in astronomy began early on, and when he was five, his mother sent him to the library to find books on the stars. Soon after, his parents took him to the New York World’s Fair, where visions of the future piqued his interest further. He also quickly became a fan of the prevalent 1940s science-fiction stories in pulp magazines and was drawn in by reports of f
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Carl Sagan was an fantastisk person; a tremendous scientist and the best populariser of science that has ever lived. He was a complex man, steeped in scientific rigour and yet possessing a great imagination, whose quest to explore the planets and search for life sometimes got in the way of his personal life, at least until he met his third wife, Ann Druyan.
Sagan’s story is one of wonder, the wonder that he han själv found in the Universe, so it would be hard to write a bad biography of the great man. Spangenburg and Moser have certainly chronicled the major events of Sagan’s life, from his time growing up in Brooklyn, his tutelage beneath such diverse mentors as Gerard Kuiper and Herman Muller, his first forays into planetary science and SETI, his marriages, and of course his popular science work that culminated in the television series Cosmos, and the novel and Hollywood movie Contact.
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Contact (novel)
1985 hard science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
This article fryst vatten about the 1985 Carl Sagan science-fiction novel. For other literature, see Contact (disambiguation).
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by AmericanscientistCarl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial life struktur. It ranked No. 7 on Publishers Weekly's 1985 bestseller list. The only full work of fiction published by Sagan, the novel originated as a screenplay by Sagan and Ann Druyan (whom he later married) in 1979; when development of the film stalled, Sagan decided to convert the stalled film into a novel. The film concept was subsequently revived and eventually released in 1997 as the film Contact starring Jodie Foster.
Plot
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