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Dec 19, 1996 · Carl E. Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, died today, Dec. 20, 1996, in Seattle, Wash., after a two-year battle with a bone marrow disease. The cause of death was pneumonia.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Astronomer Carl Edward Sagan, a gifted storyteller who extolled and explored the grandeur and mystery of the universe in lectures, books and an acclaimed TV series, died...
Not by spouting flowery falsehoods, but by conveying -- as perhaps no one else could -- the radiant majesty of reality. Sagan's death at age 62 to myelodysplasia, a rare blood disorder, represented one of the harsher realities of life. But while undeniably unfortunate, it was no less beautiful.
Dec 20, 2010 · Sagan was 62 when he died from the complications of myelodysplasia, a blood deficiency linked to anemia and leukemia. Source: Various Photo: Astronomer Carl Sagan explores the mysteries...
Dec 21, 1996 · Arousing some complaints that he was “sending smut into space,” Sagan co-designed plaques for some of the robotic vehicles stating a time and place of their launch and including pictures of the...
Dec 21, 1996 · Sagan died of pneumonia at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, after a two-year battle with a rare precancerous blood disease called myelodysplasia. He was surrounded by...
Dec 21, 1996 · Carl Sagan, an astronomer who became one of the nation's best-known scientists by enthusiastically conveying the wonders of the universe to millions of people on television and in books, died...
