Carl Sagan Memorial Award

The Carl Sagan Memorial Award is an award presented jointly by the American Astronautical Society and The Planetary Society to an individual or group "who has demonstrated leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the Cosmos." The annual award, first presented in 1997, was created in honor of American astronomer, astrobiologist and science popularizer, Carl Sagan (1934–1996).

Recipients

Source: American Astronautical Society

1997 Bruce Murray
1998 Wesley Huntress
1999 Ed Stone
2000 Arnauld Nicogossian
2001 Edward Weiler
2002 California and Carnegie Planet Search Team
2003 Roald Sagdeev
2004 Steve Squyres and the Athena Team
2005 Michael Malin
2006 Scott Hubbard^[1]
2007 Maria Zuber
2008 Lennard A. Fisk
2009 Award not offered
2010 Award not offered
2011 Charles Elachi
2012 Riccardo Giacconi
2013 Eileen K. Stansbery
2014 William J. Borucki
2015 Frank Cepollina
2016 Alan Stern^[2]
2017 AURA "HST & Beyond" Committee^[3]
2018 no award
2019 Michael W. Werner
2020 Leslie Livesay
2021 Nicola Fox

References

^ "Carl Sagan Memorial Award Presented to Scott Hubbard". The Planetary Society. 13 November 2006. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^ "Alan Stern awarded Carl Sagan Memorial Award by American Astronautical Society (AAS)". Southwest Research Institute. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^ Science, Carnegie (9 March 2017). "Sagan Award Goes to Committee Chaired by Carnegie's Alan Dressler". Carnegie Institution for Science. Retrieved 24 May 2022. (See Alan Dressler.)

External links

Carl Sagan Memorial Award

Carl Sagan

Scientific career

Project A119
Pioneer plaque
Faint young Sun paradox
Cosmic Calendar
Voyager Golden Record (contents)
Voyager Family Portrait
- Pale Blue Dot
The Planetary Society
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Books

Science	The Cosmic Connection (1973) Mars and the Mind of Man (1973) The Dragons of Eden (1977) Broca's Brain (1979) Cosmos (1980) The Cold and the Dark (1984) Comet (1985) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1993) Pale Blue Dot (1994) The Demon-Haunted World (1995) Billions and Billions (1997) The Varieties of Scientific Experience (2006)
Fiction	Contact (1985)

Media

Television	Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980 TV series) God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014 TV series) Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020 TV series)
Films	Contact (1997) Wanderers (2014)