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 Recipient
University
1994 Edward Wilson, Curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
1995 National Geographic Society and Magazine: Gilbert Grosvenor
and William Allen
L-R: David Altman and Ron Philips Listen to 2002 Awardee Phil Zimbardo
1996 NOVA-TV and Paula Apsell, Executive Producer
1997 Bill Nye, The Science Guy, TV Program
1998 Alan Alda, John Angier, Graham Chedd, Frontiers
1999 Richard Harris, Science Editor, NPR;
Ira Flatow, Producer & Host, Science Friday, NPR
2000 John Rennie, Editor, Scientific American
2001 Science Times, The New York Times;
John Noble Wilford, Journalist, The New York Times
2002 Philip G. Zimbardo, Discovering Psychology, PBS
2004 Popular Science
2005 Cheryl Heuton & Nick Falacci; NUMB3RS
2006 Court-TV
2007 Ken Weiss & Usha McFarling, Los Angeles Times
2009 Thomas L. Friedman, Author; New York Times
2010 Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society
E.O. Wilson, 1994 Awardee