The Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science is an award presented by the

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(CSSP) to individuals who have become “concurrently accomplished as researchers and/or educators, and as widely recognized magnifiers of the public's understanding of science.” The award was first presented in 1993 to astronomer,

Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on ext ...

(1934–1996), who is also the award's namesake.

Winners

*1993:

, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Cornell University *1994: E. O. Wilson, Curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University *1995: National Geographic Society and '' National Geographic Magazine'': Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor and William Allen *1996: PBS ''

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'' and

Paula Apsell Paula S. Apsell (born July 4, 1947) is the television Executive Producer Emerita of PBS's ''NOVA'' and was director of the WGBH Science Unit. Among Apsell's signature award-winning NOVA productions are "The Elegant Universe" with Dr. Brian Green ...

*1997:

Bill Nye William Sanford Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter. He is best known as the host of the science television show ''Bill ...

, ''

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'' *1998: Alan Alda, John Angier, Graham Chedd, PBS ''

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'' *1999: Richard Harris; Ira Flatow, National Public Radio *2000: John Rennie, '' Scientific American'' *2001:

John Noble Wilford John Noble Wilford (born October 4, 1933) is an author and science journalist for ''The New York Times''. Biography Wilford was born October 4, 1933, in Murray, Kentucky, and attended Grove High School across the border in nearby Paris, Tennessee. ...

, "Science Times" of the '' New York Times'' *2002:

Philip G. Zimbardo Philip George Zimbardo (; born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scie ...

, PBS ''

Discovering Psychology ''Discovering Psychology'' is a PBS documentary on psychology presented by Philip Zimbardo, for which he received the Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science The Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science is an award pres ...

'' *2003: '' Island Press'' *2004: ''

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'' *2005: Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci, creators of '' Numb3rs'' *2006: ''

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'' *2007: Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling, '' Los Angeles Times'' *2009: Thomas Friedman, '' The New York Times'' *2010:

Sylvia Earle Sylvia Alice Earle ( née Reade; born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998. Earle was the first female chief scien ...

, National Geographic Society *2013: Bassam Shakhashiri, American Chemical Society *2017: Charles Bolden, Former Administrator – National Aeronautics and Space Administration *2018: Steven Pinker *2019: William S. Hammack

References

External links

Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science

Carl Sagan Award for Public Appreciation of Science
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