The Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding
of Science is an award presented by the Council
of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) to
individuals who have become “concurrently
accomplished as researchers and/or educators,
and as widely recognized magnifiers of the
public's understanding of science.” The
award was first presented in 1993 to astronomer,
Carl Sagan (1934–1996), who is also the
award's namesake.
== Winners ==
1993: Carl Sagan, Laboratory for Planetary
Studies, Cornell University
1994: E. O. Wilson, Curator, Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Harvard University
1995: National Geographic Society and National
Geographic Magazine: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
and William Allen
1996: PBS Nova and Paula Apsell
1997: Bill Nye, Bill Nye the Science Guy
1998: Alan Alda, John Angier, Graham Chedd,
PBS Scientific American Frontiers
1999: Richard Harris; Ira Flatow, National
Public Radio
2000: John Rennie, Scientific American
2001: John Noble Wilford, "Science Times"
of the New York Times
2002: Philip G. Zimbardo, PBS Discovering
Psychology
2003: Island Press
2004: Popular Science
2005: Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci, creators
of Numb3rs
2006: Court TV
2007: Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling,
Los Angeles Times
2009: Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
2010: Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society
2013: Bassam Shakhashiri, American Chemical
Society
2017: Charles Bolden, Former Administrator
– National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2018: Steven Pinker
