Carl Edward Sagan - Ithaca, NY
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The grave of astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, Pulitzer Prize winning author, and science communicator Carl Edward Sagan is located at the south east end of Lakeview Cemetery at 605 E Shore Dr, Ithaca, NY.
Waymark Code: WMW5BT
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/11/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member elyob
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The grave of Carl Edward Sagan is marked by polished black horizontal headstone to the right of his mother Rachel Molly Gruber Sagan and father Samuel Sagan. The headstone is inscribed:

CARL EDWARD SAGAN
NOVEMBER 9, 1934       DECEMBER 20, 1996

It is a tradition to leave a blue marble at the grave site in honor of his book: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Description:

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn NY. He and his family and moved to Rahway NJ when he was 14 years old. He attended Rahway High School and the University of Chicago when he was 16 years old. He earned a B.A. in 1954, and a B.S. degree in physics in 1955, a M.S. degree in physics in 1956, and a Ph.D. in astronomy 1960. He taught at Harvard University before coming to Cornell University in Ithaca, NY at the invitation of astronomer Thomas Gold. At Cornell he did important research in exobiology by proving the basic building blocks of proteins, amino acids, can be produced from basic chemicals by the effects of radiation.

Carl Sagan's career as an author and the preeminent science communicator of his era is legendary. In 1994 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal, the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences for "distinguished contributions in the application of science to the public welfare." Carl Sagan is probably best known for writing and narrating the 13 part Emmy Award winning TV series Cosmos along with writing the companion book Cosmos. He also was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1978 for his book The Dragons of Eden.

Books by Carl Sagan include:

Planets
UFO's: A Scientific Debate
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI)
Mars and the Mind of Man
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
Other Worlds
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science Cosmos
The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War:
The Conference on the Long-Term Worldwide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War.
Comet
Contact: A Novel
A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium



Date of birth: 11/09/1934

Date of death: 12/20/1996

Area of notoriety: Science/Technology

Marker Type: Horizontal Marker

Setting: Outdoor

Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daylight Hours

Fee required?: No

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