Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science
Carl Sagan Exhorts the CSSP to Engage More With the Public
CSSP provides an award, the Sagan Award, for increasing the public appreciation of science. Its purpose is to honor those who have become concurrently accomplished as researchers and/or educators, and as widely recognized magnifiers of the public’s understanding of science. Winners include:
John Rennie, 2000 Receipient
L-R: David Altman and Ron Philips Listen to 2002 Awardee Phil Zimbardo
2009 – Thomas L. Friedman, Author; New York Times
2007 – Ken Weiss & Usha McFarling, Los Angeles Times
2006 – Court-TV
2004 – Popular Science
2002 – Philip G. Zimbardo, Discovering Psychology, PBS
2001 – Science Times, The New York Times
2001 – John Noble Wilford, Journalist, The New York Times
2000 – John Rennie, Editor, Scientific American
Edward O. Wilson, 1994 Awardee
1999 – Richard Harris, Science Editor, NPR;
1999 – Ira Flatow, Producer & Host, Science Friday, NPR
1998 – Alan Alda, John Angier, Graham Chedd, Frontiers
1997 – Bill Nye, The Science Guy, TV Program
1996 – NOVA-TV and Paula Apsell, Executive Producer
1995 – National Geographic Society and Magazine: Gilbert Grosvenor and William Allen
1994 – Edward Wilson, Curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
