Tag: science communication

• Carl Sagan Day: Let There Be 100 Sagans

  Today—November 9, 2012—would have been Carl Sagan’s 78th birthday. Sagan of course was a prominent planetary scientist, co-founder of the Planetary Society space exploration advocacy group, and (most famously among non-scientists) a writer and television host. He co-wrote and starred in the iconic PBS series Cosmos, and wrote the novel Contact (the basis for the 1997…

  Matthew R. Francis

  November 9, 2012

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Personal Musings, Public Figures, Society

  Carl Sagan, science communication, science outreach, Scientists