“Carl Sagan, more than any contemporary scientist I can think of, knew what it takes to stir passion within the public when it comes to the wonder and importance of science,” Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, said on the day of Sagan’s death.
As the creator of the television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Sagan is widely credited with making science popular — you can bet there would be no Bill Nye or The Big Bang Theory without him.
He was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and contributed to some of NASA‘s most prominent missions in the 1970s and ’80s. Sagan died on Dec. 20, 1996 of pneumonia, a complication of the bone marrow cancer myelodysplasia. Read more…
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