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Carl Sagan was born on 9 November, 1934

Famous American astronomer, astrophysicist and author who popularised science via his books and TV series.

If his presentation of Cosmos wasn’t enough to make him immensely famous, Carl Sagan has now become part of popular culture with a meme featuring him with a quizzical expression – the “Dude What” meme.

Carl Sagan Dude What meme

John Boswell, an electronic musician, created a project called Symphony of Science that consist of twenty songs, and their corresponding videos. They feature several popularisers of science and famous scientists like Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins and many more. The first song A Glorious Dawn starts with the Sagan ‘singing’ memorable lines from his TV program.