The Seth MacFarlane collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan archive, 1860-2004

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Biographical Note

Carl Sagan

Date	Event
1934, Nov. 9	Born, New York, N.Y.
1954	A.B., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1955	B.S., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1956	M.S., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1957	Married Lynn Alexander (divorced 1963)
1960	Ph. D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1960-1962	Miller Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
1962-1968	Assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.
1966	Published with I. S. Shklovskii Intelligent Life in the Universe. San Francisco: Holden-Day
1968	Married Linda Salzman (divorced 1981)
1968-1970	Associate professor of astronomy and space sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Research associate, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1968-1974	Vice chairman, working group on Moon and Planets, Space Organization, International Council of Scientific Unions
1968-1996	Professor of astronomy and space sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Director, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1967-1972	Lecturer, Apollo flight crews, National Aeronautics and Space Agency
1971	Chairman and United States delegate, Joint Conference on United States and Soviet Academies of Science on Communications with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
1972	Awarded NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for the Mariner 9 mission to Mars
1973	Editor, Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI). Cambridge: MIT Press Published The Cosmic Connection; An Extraterrestrial Perspective. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press
1972-1981	Associate director, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1976-1996	David Duncan professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1977	Published Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. New York: Random House; awarded Pulitzer Prize Awarded NASA Medal for Distinguished Public Service
1978-1985	President of the CETI Foundation
1979-1990s	President of the Planetary Society
1980	Premier of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, a television series for the Public Broadcasting Service that Sagan hosted
1981	Married Ann Druyan Awarded NASA Medal for Distinguished Public Service
1986-1990s	Visiting scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
1990	Awarded Oersted Medal, American Association of Physics Teachers
1994	Received Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Sciences
1996, Dec. 20	Died, Seattle, Washington

Ann Druyan

Date	Event
1949, June 13	Born, Queens, N.Y.
1967-1971	Attended New York University, New York, N.Y.
1977	Published A Famous Broken Heart: A Fantasy Novel. New York: Stonehill Publishing Co. Served as creative director of the Voyager Interstellar Record Project
1978	Published with Carl Sagan Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. New York: Random House
1980	Premier of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the television series that she co-wrote with Sagan and Steven Soter
1981	Married Carl Sagan
1985	Published with Carl Sagan Comet. New York: Random House
1986	Writer and producer of “Confessions of a Weaponeer,” an episode of NOVA for the Public Broadcasting Service network
1992	Published with Carl Sagan Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. New York: Random House
1997	Premier of Contact, a motion picture in which she served as co-producer and co-creator, based on a story co-written with Sagan
2002	Co-writer for the documentary “The Search for Life: Are We Alone?”
2006	Edited, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View for the Search for God. New York: Penguin Press
2012-	Writer and producer of a new television series Cosmos to premier on Fox in 2014