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Carl Sagan

By ashleighmcclure
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    Carl Sagan

    Life of Carl Sagan

  • Birth

    Birth
    Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 9, 1934

  • 1939 World's Fair

    1939 World's Fair
    Sagan's parents take him to the World's Fair and it influenced him in the field of technology

  • World War II

    World War II
    Sagan'a family worried about family members in Europe- some family members were in the Holocaust.

  • Childhood Learning

    Sagan's visits to the library and New York's, American Muesum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium influence his love for astronomy. Loved Sci-fi novels by H.G. Wells about life on Mars.

  • NASA

    NASA
    Advisor to NASA, where one of his duties included briefing the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon

  • High School

    Sagan received his graduation from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey

  • Undergraduate Education

    Undergraduate Education
    Attended University of Chicago, recieved bachelor of arts in"nothing" with honors.

  • Masters Degree

    Earned Bachelor of Science at University of Chicago

  • PhD degree

    PhD degree
    Got phD in philosophy in astronomy and astrophysics

  • University of California, Berkeley

    University of California, Berkeley
    Sagan remained a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley

  • Venus's surface conditions

    Mariner 2 confirmed Sagan’s conclusions on Venus’s surface conditions

  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

    Sagan started his career working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • 2nd marriage

    Linda Salzman

  • Doctorate work

    Doctorate work
    Lectured and researched at Harvard, and became full time professor at Cornell.

  • Helped with 1st physical message sent into space

    Gold-andonized attached to probe Pioneer 10

  • Arecibo message

    Arecibo message
    Sagan also helped Frank Drake write the Arecibo message, a radio message beamed into space from the Arecibo radio telescope on November 16, 1974, aimed at informing potential extraterrestrials about Earth.

  • Cosmos TV Show

    Wrote Cosmos TV show, aired for almost a year

  • Co-authors article

    Nuclear Winter

  • Death in Seattle, Washington

    Death in Seattle, Washington
    After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62.

  • Re-make of Cosmos TV Show

    Neil Degrasse Tyson