Carl Sagan: The scientific journalist who wasn´t a journalist

A good scientific journalist is capable to disseminate science to society in an easy and interesting way; this permit that people around the world knows many aspects of research and discover a lot of the answers related to some of most enigmatic questions. In a certain way, a scientific journalist has the responsibility of produce knowledge using their abilities of build a bridge between the “common society” and “scientific society”. In this note, I want to talk about Carl Sagan, the most important scientific journalist of our time that in fact wasn’t a journalist.

Carl was born on November 9, 1934, in Brooklyn and he graduated from the University of Chicago, where he studied planets and explored theories of extraterrestrial intelligence. He worked with NASA on several projects a he was a very important antinuclear activist. Many of their work were based in the relation of planets with the space-time inside the evolution theory, generated by Charles Darwin.

But Carl not only investigate in his lab and wrote many papers, He was in fact a true visionary and a true scientific journalist, prove to that, is the interested that he maintain in dissemination of science through his work with schools and TV. Sagan was the father of TV series “Cosmos” in 1980, which was reborn on TV in 2014 with one of their disciple, Neil Tyson. This program was so success that is considerate one of the most important pieces of science´s communication in history.

Carl Sagan death in 1996, and his legacy was tremendous, not only for the advance in his particularly area of astronomy, but also for their inclusion in science communication. Prove that, Carl is called the “Father of scientific journal”, even when he wasn´t received the title of this career. This teach us that sometimes a person not necessarily study something to be something.