It included an Introduction by Carl Sagan that tells the following story: Sagan was in London for a scientific conference in 1974, and between sessions he wandered into a different room, where a larger meeting was taking place.

Sagan assembled the first physical message that was sent into space: a gold-anodized plaque, attached to the space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972.

Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan consider the latter work the first science fiction story.

Drake co-designed the Pioneer plaque with Carl Sagan in 1972, the first physical message sent into space.

The Introduction was removed after the first edition, as it was copyrighted by Sagan, rather than by Hawking or the publisher, and the publisher did not have the right to reprint it in perpetuity.

Among the first to argue that members of sexual minorities can constitute cultural minorities as well as being just individuals were Adolf Brand, Magnus Hirschfeld and Leontine Sagan in Germany.

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.

In 1966, when Däniken was writing his first book, scientists Carl Sagan and I. S. Shklovskii, wrote about the possibility of paleocontact and extraterrestrial visitation claims in one chapter of their book Intelligent Life in the Universe, giving some scientific legitimacy to the idea.

The term scientific skepticism appears to have originated in the work of Carl Sagan, first in Contact ( p. 306 ), and then in Billions and Billions ( p. 135 ).

* Contact ( novel ), a novel by Carl Sagan describing the first contact of humanity with an extraterrestrial civilisation

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 the Carl Sagan novel, Contact, the protagonist, Eleanor Arroway, is reading the A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, specifically the scene where Hank first approaches Camelot, when she finds out about her father's death.

** Revised and extended English translation of this book, coauthored with Carl Sagan, was first published in 1966, under the name Intelligent Life in the Universe, one of the latest reissues was published in 1998 by Emerson-Adams Press ( ISBN 1-892803-02-X )

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a book by astrophysicist Carl Sagan, which was first published in 1995.

Bhadase Sagan Maraj, the first leader of the party in the Legislative Council, became ill, bedridden and addicted to pethidine.

Born Bhadase Sagan Maraj in the tiny village of Caroni, the young Hindu's first ambition was to take his family out of the poverty, deprivation and degradation that had been their lot ever since his father stepped off an indentured labourers ' boat.

* Princess Yevdokiya Borisovna Yusupova May 5 ( NS: May 16 ) 1743, Moscow-July 19 ( NS: July 8 ) 1780, Saint Petersburg ), married on March 6, 1774, Mitava ( Mittau ) ( divorced in 1777 or 1778 ), as his second wife, to Peter von Biron, the last Duke von Kurland ( 1769 – 1795 ) and the first Duke von Sagan ( 1786 – 1795 ) ( February 15, 1724, Mitava ( Mittau )-January 13, 1800, Schloss Gellenau ), without offspring

31 ; Talleyrand dead ; wed Anna Gould ; Duke Was known as Prince of Sagan at time of courtship in first of century.

Marie Pierre Camille Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Sagan and fifth Duke of Talleyrand, was a principal in one of the international marriage of the first decade of this century.

SCTV's version featured a team of public television stars captained by William F. Buckley ( played by Flaherty ) vs. a team led by Carl Sagan ( played by Thomas ), with confrontations that included Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers's Neighborhood fame ( played by Short ) in a boxing match with chef Julia Child ( played by Candy ).

The Planetary Society was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman as a champion of public support of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial.

model, in which a far-sighted U. S. leader provides the funding and mobilizes national public opinion around the idea ; the Sagan model, in which international co-operation is the driving force ; and the Gingrich approach, which emphasizes incentives and even prizes for private sector actors who take on research and development tasks.

Teaming up with Carl Sagan, his public advocacy for what he termed exobiology helped expand the role of biology in NASA.

" Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage he sued Apple Computer to force the use of a different project name.

From 1960 to 1962 Sagan was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sagan lectured and did research at Harvard University until 1968, when he moved to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York after being denied tenure at Harvard.

From 1972 to 1981, Sagan was the Associate Director of the Center for Radio Physics and Space Research at Cornell.

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

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.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

Carl Sagan suggested that there are three claims in the field of parapsychology which have at least some experimental support and " deserve serious study ", as they " might be true ":

In the SETI context, the name has been used for radio telescopes in fiction ( Arthur C. Clarke, " Imperial Earth "; Carl Sagan, " Contact "), was the name initially used for the NASA study ultimately known as " Cyclops ," and is the name given to an omnidirectional radio telescope design being developed at the Ohio State University.

* Carl Sagan writes at length about Teller's career in chapter 16 of his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ( Headline, 1996 ), p. 268-274.

** 2006-12-30 — Martian Analemma at Sagan Memorial Station ( simulated )

During his tenure, Gold hired famed astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, helped establish the world's largest radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Cornell-Sydney University Astronomy Center with Harry Messel.

Carl Sagan, hired by Gold after Sagan was denied tenure at Harvard University in 1968.

He approached Carl Sagan, who had lectured about communication with extraterrestrial intelligences at a conference in Crimea.

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 book is an expansion of the Jacob Bronowski Memorial Lecture in Natural Philosophy which Sagan gave at the University of Toronto.

Kathryn M. Drennan is an American writer, having worked for Carl Sagan on the mini-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in the early 1980s and for Michael Piller, producer at the time for Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the early 1990s.

Johnny was killed off in 1990, sacrificing himself to save mutants from extermination at the hands of Kreelman's illegitimate son, Lord Sagan.

Sagan is now selling some of the collection at Wolfgang's Vault referring to Graham's childhood nickname.

Sagan taught screenwriting at Cornell University in the spring of 2007.

Proceedings of the 37 < sup > th </ sup > International Astronautical Congress, Innsbruck, Austria, 4-11 October 1986, IAF-86-360 </ ref > The ISU founders are Peter Diamandis, a medical doctor with a Master's in aerospace engineering from MIT ; Todd Hawley, a graduate from Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, and Robert D. Richards, an engineer and physicist, and former assistant of the well-known astrophysicist Carl Sagan.