Carl Sagan
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 Carl Sagan facts

• He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator
• His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation
• Sagan assembled the first physical messages 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
• Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect
• Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books
• He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
• 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
• His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress