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Carl Sagan

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q17373936&amp;oldid=2172392852" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Solstice Award · dated 2013
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q2482106&amp;oldid=2562205971" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Demon-Haunted World
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q49115&amp;oldid=2556215522" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cornell University
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q131252&amp;oldid=2554977901" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Chicago · to 1960
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q784589&amp;oldid=2559691477" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction · dated 1978
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q5231098&amp;oldid=2456785300" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pale Blue Dot

Wikidata describes Carl Sagan as American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996).

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