Carl Sagan

By: Saqlain Golandaz

Personal Life

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, NY on November 9th, 1934. Sagan's interest and love for the Cosmos grew early when his mother used to bring books from the library for him to read. He graduated high school at the age of 16 and attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate studies. He graduated with a BA in Physics and continued to achieve his Masters at UChicago as well. After earning his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, he helped a team there develop an infrared radiometer for NASA's Mariner 2 probe.

Marriage and Family Life

During his lifetime, Sagan had 3 different marriages, with Lynn Margulis (1957), Linda Salzmann (1968), and Ann Druyan (1981). He had a total of 5 children. One of his children, Nick Sagan, is currently a Science Fiction writer, involved in numerous well-known TV shows like Star Trek: Next Generation. Nick was inspired by both astrophysics and writing as he was exposed to both areas by his parents, Carl and Linda Salzmann.

When it came to religion, Sagan didn't associate himself with one, but he also didn't consider himself an atheist. In an interview in Ontario in 1996, he stated, "I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god." His children followed in his footsteps and also don't associate themselves with any religion.

Death

Sagan died of pneumonia and complications from myelodysplasia on December 26th, 1996, at the age of 62.

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http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/carl-sagan-155.php http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/carl-sagan-carl-sagan-biographies-echo-an-extraordinary-life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan http://www.biography.com/people/carl-sagan-9469191#synopsis http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140316-carl-sagan-science-galaxies-space/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2014/07/10/carl-sagan-denied-being-an-atheist-so-what-did-he-believe-part-1/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-carl-sagan-truly-irreplaceable-180949818/?no-ist