Carl Sagan Net Worth

Carl Sagan Net Worth is
$1.7 Million

Carl Sagan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. His contributions were central to the discovery of the high surface temperatures of Venus. However, he is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages that were sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. Sagan is known for many of his popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.Sagan always advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. Sagan and his works received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Dragons of Eden, and, regarding Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, two Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award and the Hugo Award. He married three times and had five children. After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62 on December 20, 1996.

Full NameCarl Sagan
Date Of BirthNovember 9, 1934
Died1996-12-20
Place Of BirthBrooklyn, New York, U.S.
Height5' 11" (1.8 m)
ProfessionWriter, Miscellaneous Crew, Actor
EducationUniversity of Chicago
NationalityUnited States of America
SpouseLinda Salzman Sagan
ChildrenNick Sagan, Dorion Sagan, Jeremy Sagan, Sasha Sagan, Samuel Sagan
ParentsSamuel Sagan, Rachel Molly Gruber
SiblingsCarol Sagan
AwardsPeabody Award, NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, Public Welfare Medal, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Oersted Medal, Klumpke-Roberts Award, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Locus Award for Best First Novel, Hugo Award for Best Related Work, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, ...
NominationsLocus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction, National Book Award for Science (Paperback), National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)
MoviesContact, The World After Nuclear War, Wanderers, Extinction
Star SignScorpio
#Trademark
1He mostly wore turtlenecks with suit coats.
#Quote
1[Cosmos, PBS TV, 21 December 1980] We are one planet.
2[About "Blue Pale Dot", a photo taken by space probe Voyager I in 14 February 1990] Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
3[Cosmos, PBS TV, 21 December 1980] The only sacred truth is that there are no sacred truths.
4When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions. That is the heart of science.
5To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. [Cosmos, PBS TV, 23 November 1980]
6In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion." "The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
7Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
8Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
9"I never said it. Honest." - The opening line in his last book called "Billions and Billions." He was right -- the phrase was coined by Johnny Carson imitating him.
10The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
11[About religion] "I don't want to believe. I want to know."
12We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
13Billions upon billions...
#Fact
1He has an Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number of 9, which is among the lowest on the planet.
2Father of Sasha Sagan.
3He was the visual inspiration for Earl Meagan, a character from the V comics, based on the popular V (1984) TV series.
4He was elected into the 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services to Enterprise.
5Five children: Dorion and Jeremy from his first marriage, Nick Sagan from his second marriage and a daughter Sasha and son Sam from his third marriage.
6Despite being known for, and frequently quoted with, his famous phrase "billions and billions...", Carl Sagan never actually said it during the entire single-season run of Cosmos (1980). The actual phrase is "billions UPON billions," and the complete quote which includes this often-misquoted phrase is "A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars."
7Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 537-540. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
8Named 1981 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association "in recognition of his work as an educator, skeptic, activist, and populizer of science".
9Suffered from rare blood disorder that led to cancer and ultimately his death.
10Born at 5:05pm-EST
11Father of Dorion Sagan and Nick Sagan.

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Star Stuff: The Story of Carl Sagan2015Short Inspired by the work and life of
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey2014TV Mini-Series documentary inspired by "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" written by - 13 episodes
FanGirl Academy: 1012014TV Series documentary 1 episode
Contact1997based on the novel by / based on the story by
The Earth Day Special1990TV Special segments "Galaxy Intro", "Carl Sagan"
Cosmos1980TV Mini-Series documentary written by - 13 episodes

Miscellaneous

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Savages in Foreign Lands2015Documentary mentor
The Earth Day Special1990TV Special science advisor - as Dr. Carl Sagan
Threads1984TV Movie scientific advisor

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Wanderers2014Short voice
eXtinction2011Video short voice

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Contact1997co-producer

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
GET Andy Warhol2014Short special thanks
The Astronomer2012Documentary short inspirational thanks
All Things Shining2012inspirational thanks
An Inconvenient Truth2006Documentary special thanks
StarCraft1998Video Game thanks
Contact1997dedicatee
For All Mankind1989Documentary special thanks
In Search of Ancient Astronauts1973TV Movie documentary thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
On the Edge1998/IDocumentaryHimself
The Sky at Night1997TV Series documentary
Horizon1996TV Series documentaryHimself
Charlie Rose1995-1996TV SeriesHimself - Guest / Himself
Nova1978-1996TV Series documentaryHimself
Stargazers1994TV Movie documentaryHimself
Good Morning America1994TV SeriesHimself
The Earth Day Special1990TV SpecialHimself (as Dr. Carl Sagan)
God, the Universe and Everything Else1988VideoHimself
Meet the Press1986TV SeriesHimself
Natural World1984TV Series documentaryHimself - Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University
The World After Nuclear War1984TV Movie documentaryHimself - Narrator
Target... Earth?1980DocumentaryHimself (as Dr. Carl Sagan)
Cosmos1980TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself - Host
Dinah!1978TV SeriesHimself
20/201978TV Series documentaryHimself - Correspondent (1978)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1973-1978TV SeriesHimself / Himself - Guest / Himself - Dr. Sagan
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures1978TV Series documentaryHimself - Presenter
Cousteau: Oasis in Space1976TV Series documentaryHimself
Who's Out There?1975Documentary short
Mars: The Search Begins1974Documentary shortHimself - Institute for Planetary Science, Cornell University
In Search of Ancient Astronauts1973TV Movie documentaryHimself
The David Frost Show1972TV SeriesHimself
The Mike Douglas Show1967TV SeriesHimself - Author

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Space's Deepest Secrets2016TV Series documentaryHimself - Astronomer
Quantum Earth2015TV SeriesHimself - Guest
Chemtrails and the Flat Earth... Revisited2015VideoHimself
Inside Edition2015TV Series documentaryHimself
Superluminal2015ShortHimself
GET Colonel Sanders2014ShortThe Scientist
The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins2014TV Movie documentaryHimself, astronomer
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey2014TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
The Real History of Science Fiction2014TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
GET Andy Warhol2014ShortThe Scientist
Voyager: To the Final Frontier2012TV Movie documentaryHimself - Voyager Project Scientist
American Masters2012TV Series documentaryHimself
Owned & Operated2012DocumentaryHimself
Shameless2011TV SeriesHimself
The Reality of Me (TROM)2011DocumentaryHimself
UFO: The Greatest Story Ever Denied2006Video documentaryHimself (uncredited)
UFO Files2005TV Series documentaryHimself
The Planets1999TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself - Astronomer
Biography1997TV Series documentaryHimself
The X-Files1997TV SeriesHimself
Murphy Brown1989TV SeriesHimself / opening credits

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1998HugoHugo AwardsBest Dramatic PresentationContact (1997)
1981Peabody AwardPeabody AwardsCosmos (1980)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1998OFTA Film AwardOnline Film & Television AssociationBest Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another MediumContact (1997)
1981HugoHugo AwardsBest Dramatic PresentationCosmos (1980)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.