The Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science is an award presented by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (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 (1934–1996), who is also the award's namesake.
Winners 1993: Carl Sagan, 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 Nova and Paula Apsell 1997: Bill Nye, Bill Nye the Science Guy 1998: Alan Alda, John Angier, Graham Chedd, PBS Scientific American Frontiers 1999: Richard Harris; Ira Flatow, National Public Radio 2000: John Rennie, Scientific American 2001: John Noble Wilford, "Science Times" of the New York Times 2002: Philip G. Zimbardo, PBS Discovering Psychology 2003: Island Press 2004: Popular Science 2005: Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci, creators of Numb3rs 2006: Court TV 2007: Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling, Los Angeles Times 2009: Thomas Friedman, The New York Times 2010: Sylvia Earle, 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
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External links Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science Carl Sagan Award for Public Appreciation of Science