![]() Though ridiculed by some, Carl Sagan never stopped championing the belief that alien intelligence existed, either in this galaxy or beyond. One of his most notable projects involved the production of messages from humankind to extraterrestrial life that were eventually mounted on probes and sent to the outer reaches of the Solar System. His interests also took him to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard from where he studied Venus and Jupiter. ![]() He was part of the NASA team that worked on Mariner 2. The author’s imagination was always drawn to the stars. Having mastered the nature and structure of molecules on his own by using cardboard cutouts to visualize their structure, Sagan also found an opportunity to participate in his university’s chemistry research, eventually earning a Ph.D. ![]() From his father, Sagan acquired the sense of wonder and wild imagination that drove him to feed his curiosity.Ī straight-A student whose genius turned his high school classes into an uninspiring bore, Carl Sagan eventually joined the University of Chicago, building upon the work he had done in his high school chemistry club by pursuing a degree in Physics. It was from his mother that the author inherited his intellectual curiosity. ![]()
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