* Fast contributed music to the Carl Sagan 1980 television program Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

The 2007 print version of the Britannica has 4, 411 contributors, many eminent in their fields, such as Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman, astronomer Carl Sagan, and surgeon Michael DeBakey.

Dr. Carl Sagan, using optimistic numbers, suggested as many as one million communicating civilizations in the Milky Way in 1966, though he later suggested that the actual number could be far smaller.

Even in modern Western cultures, many people see supernatural forces behind every event, as described by Carl Sagan in his book The Demon-Haunted World.

Mitchelson's celebrity clients included Pamela Mason ( wife of James Mason ), who received a $ 2 million divorce settlement from her ex-husband, Robert De Niro, Mickey Rooney, Sylvester Stallone, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Collins, Mel Tormé, Bianca Jagger, Lesley-Anne Down, Carl Sagan, Mrs. William Shatner, and many ex-wives of errant playboy sheiks.

The series was also inspirational for many scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan, who read A Princess of Mars when he was a child.

Sagan and many others associated with the film fled Germany soon after the banning.

For example, the Opening Parade Event for the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and a series of Special Weekends for the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY that included many original ideas including a Murder Mystery Weekend with Edward Gorey and Isaac Asimov ; a Chamber Music Weekend ; Explore the Tiny ( Small is Beautiful ); Star Parties with Carl Sagan ; a Chocolate Lover ’ s event and many more that continue to be featured events at the Mountain House to this day.

Sagan often challenged the decisions to fund the Space Shuttle and Space Station at the expense of further robotic missions.

The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Andersons novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the television series and book Cosmos.

Carl Sagan noted that " The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space.

Sagan was enthusiastic about the idea of sending a message with the Pioneer spacecraft.

Linda Salzman Sagan ( born July 16, 1940 ) is an artist and writer, famed for creating the artwork for the plaque on the Pioneer spacecraft and for coproducing the Voyager Golden Record.

Carl Sagan has noted that the first reported association of the Dogon with the knowledge of Sirius as a binary star was in the 1940s, giving the Dogon ample opportunity to gain cosmological knowledge about Sirius and the solar system from more scientifically advanced, terrestrial societies whom they had come in contact with.

In his later years as a writer and scientist, Sagan would often draw on his childhood memories to illustrate scientific points, as he did in his book, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.

Sagan describes his parents ' influence on his later thinking:

During his time as an honors program undergraduate, Sagan worked in the laboratory of the geneticist H. J. Muller and wrote a thesis on the origins of life with physical chemist H. C. Urey.

Sagan taught a course on critical thinking at Cornell University until he died in 1996 from pneumonia, a few months after finding that he was in remission of myelodysplastic syndrome.

In 1960, Singer commented in an article in Astronautics on the hypothesis of Iosif Shklovsky ( later mentioned in a 1966 book by Carl Sagan and Shklovsky ) that the orbit of the Martian moon Phobos suggests that it is hollow, which implies it is of artificial origin.

He debated the astronomer Carl Sagan on ABC's Nightline, Sagan arguing that the smoke might loft into the upper atmosphere and lead to massive agricultural failures.

The resulting carbon, Sagan supposed, would be incinerated by the high surface temperatures of Venus, and thus be sequestered in the form of " graphite or some involatile form of carbon " on the planet's surface.

Sagan also visualized making Mars habitable for human life in " Planetary Engineering on Mars " ( 1973 ), an article published in the journal Icarus.

* Video: Carl Sagan on the 4th Dimension Explanation

* Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan, 2007, Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature, Sciencewriters Books, ISBN 978-1-933392-31-8

* Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan, 1997, Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution, Copernicus Books, ISBN 0-387-94927-5

Carl Sagan in his book Comet ( 1985 ) reproduces Han period Chinese manuscript ( the Book of Silk, 2nd century BC ) that shows comet tail varieties: most are variations on simple comet tails, but the last shows the comet nucleus with four bent arms extending from it, recalling a swastika.

" In his Introduction, Sagan goes on to add that Hawking is the " worthy successor " to Newton and P. A. M. Dirac, both former Lucasian Professors of Mathematics.

Situated on the left bank of the River Seine, this central arrondissement which includes the historic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés ( surrounding the Abbey founded in the 6th century ) and Luxembourg ( surrounding the Palace and its Gardens ) has played a major role throughout Paris history and is well known for its café culture and the revolutionary intellectualism ( see: Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir ) and literature ( see: Paul Éluard, Boris Vian, Albert Camus, Françoise Sagan ) it has hosted.

After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque ( line drawings of a naked man and woman ), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record.

Most of the images used on the record ( reproduced in black and white ), together with information about its compilation, can be found in the 1978 book Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record by Carl Sagan, F. D.

Many of the world's leading astronomers have appeared on the show through the years, including Harlow Shapley ( the first to measure the size of the Milky Way galaxy ), Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Samuel Tolansky, Harold Spencer Jones, Martin Ryle, Carlos Frenk, and Bart Bok.

" As events transpired ," reported Carl Sagan, whose own interest in science was nevertheless sparked by the Fair's gadgetry, " almost no real science was tacked on to the Fair's exhibits, despite the scientists ' protests and their appeals to high principles.

A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech ) until 2009 and one of the world ’ s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein ’ s general theory of relativity.

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence is a Pulitzer Prize winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan.

Criticizing Ehrlich on similar grounds as Simon was Ronald Bailey, a leader in the wise use movement, who wrote a book in 1993 entitled Eco-Scam where he blasted the views of Ehrlich, Lester Brown, Carl Sagan and other environmental theorists.

One of the tracks, a recording of " Izlel je Delyo Hajdutin ", was included by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan on the Voyager Golden Record.

Astronomer Carl Sagan declined to sign the statement.

Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.

In a letter published in a follow-up edition of The Humanist, Sagan confirmed that he would have been willing to sign such a statement had it described and refuted the principal tenets of astrological belief.

She made substantial contributions to the PBS documentary series Cosmos and was the third wife of the late Carl Sagan.

Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series COSMOS and a producer for the motion picture CONTACT.

In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she described the life of husband, Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage.

Druyan and Sagan cowrote the books Comet, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and sections of The Demon-Haunted World.

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.

Sagan wrote the novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.

His father, Sam Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Russia.

Sagan graduated from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1951.

According to Sagan, they were Reform Jews, the more liberal of Judaism's three main groups.

Sagan traced his later analytical urges to his mother, a woman who had known " extreme poverty as a child ", and had grown up almost homeless in New York City during World War I and the 1920s.

Sagan recalls that one of his best experiences was when he was four or five years old, his parents took him to the 1939 New York World's Fair.

As an adult, Sagan and his colleagues created similar time capsules, but ones that would be sent out into the galaxy.

Sagan, however, was generally unaware of the details of the ongoing war.

Sagan recalled taking his first trips to the public library alone, at the age of five, when his mother got him a library card.

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.