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1º EVENT Carl Edward Sagan (New York, United States, November 9, 1934-Seattle,
United States, December 20, 1996) was an astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist,
astrobiologist, writer and American science popularizer. He was a defender of scientific
thought and of the scientific method, pioneer of exobiology, promoter of the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence through the SETI Project. He promoted the sending of messages
aboard space probes, intended to inform possible extraterrestrial civilizations about human
culture. Through his observations of the atmosphere of Venus, he was among the first
scientists to study the greenhouse effect on a planetary scale. At Cornell University, Carl
Sagan was the first scientist to hold the David Duncan Chair in Astronomy and Space
Sciences, created in 1976, and was director of the Planetary Studies Laboratory.
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lo largo de su vida, Sagan recibió numerosos premios y condecoraciones por su labor
como comunicador de la ciencia y la cultura. Hoy es considerado uno de los
divulgadores de la ciencia más carismáticos e influyentes, gracias a su capacidad de
transmitir las ideas científicas y los aspectos culturales al público no especializado
con sencillez no exenta de rigor.
2nd EVENT Carl Sagan gained great popularity thanks to the award-winning TV
documentary series Cosmos: A personal journey, produced in 1980, of which he was narrator
and co-author. He also published numerous scientific articles, and was the author, co-author
or editor of more than twenty books of popular science, the most popular being his books
Cosmos, published as a complement to the series, and Contact, on which the homonymous
film is based 1997. In 1978 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Literature for
his book The Dragons of Eden. Throughout his life, Sagan received numerous awards and
decorations for his work as a communicator of science and culture. Today he is considered
one of the most charismatic and influential disseminators of science, thanks to his ability to
transmit scientific ideas and cultural aspects to the non-specialized public with simplicity not
exempt from rigor.
3º EVENTO Trabajó muy duro por sus estudiantes, para que ellos consiguieran
trabajo, se preocupó por su educación, y muchos de ellos están muy bien situados
ahora", dice William Poundstone, autor de Carl Sagan: Una vida en el cosmos. "Si
hablas con la gente a la cual él inspiró, con los que lo conocieron, su respuesta será
uniforme y efusiva." "Sagan fue sin duda el científico estadounidense más famoso
de la década de 1980 y principios de 1990", dice el experto en periodismo científico
Declan Fahy de la American University en Washington, DC. "Después de
que Cosmos llegase a medio mundo, y su fama llegó a otro nivel, y el libro de la serie
pasó más de 70 semanas en la lista de los más vendidos.
3rd EVENT He worked very hard for his students, so that they could get work, he worried
about his education, and many of them are very well placed now, "says William Poundstone,
author of Carl Sagan: A life in the cosmos." If you talk to the people he inspired, with those
who knew him, his response will be uniform and effusive. "" Sagan was undoubtedly the
most famous American scientist of the 1980s and early 1990s, "says the expert Scientific
journalism Declan Fahy of the American University in Washington, DC. "After Cosmos
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arrived halfway around the world, and his fame reached another level, and the series book
spent more than 70 weeks on the bestseller list.
4º EVENTO Sagan dirigió el equipo que armó los "discos de oro" de las dos naves
espaciales de la misión Voyager. Los registros (enviados junto con las agujas de
fonógrafo) incluyen canciones de todo tipo, desde Bach a "Johnny B. Goode", junto
con saludos y sonidos naturales de la Tierra. Sagan también entró en el debate sobre
el calentamiento global, como el autor principal de un estudio en 1983 de la
revista Science sobre el "invierno nuclear”. En él hablaba de cómo podía cambiar el
clima por culpa de las nubes de polvo levantadas por culpa de las pruebas nucleares
de las superpotencias.
4th EVENT Sagan led the team that put together the "gold discs" of the two spacecraft of
the Voyager mission. Records (sent along with phonograph needles) include songs of all
kinds, from Bach to "Johnny B. Goode," along with greetings and natural sounds from Earth.
Sagan also entered the debate on global warming, as the lead author of a 1983 study of the
journal Science on “nuclear winter.” He talked about how the weather could change because
of dust clouds raised by guilt. of nuclear tests of superpowers.
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5th EVENT Carl Sagan has received various awards, decorations and honors among
which are:
• Miller Research Grant (1960-1962) from the Miller Institute.
• Apollo Program Award granted by NASA.
• Klumpke-Roberts Award (1974) of the Pacific Astronomical Society.
• John W. Campbell Memorial Special Nonfiction Award (1974) for The Cosmic Connection.
• NASA Medal for Distinguished Public Service (1977).
• NASA Medal for Outstanding Scientific Achievement.
• Pulitzer Prize (1978) in the category of general nonfiction work in the essay Los Dragones
del Eden.
• Lowell Thomas Award from the Explorers Club on the 75th Anniversary.
• Peabody Award (1980) to the Cosmos series.
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