What astronomer is more recognized for accomplishments than Carl Sagan ?

Question

probally lots.

Answer 1

Okey dokey. Let's start with Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Copernicus. They were all very advanced mathematicians for their day, too.

Somewhere during the 19th Century scientists all had to get extremely specialized and were seldom able to be full-featured Renaissance men.

Sagan didn't really discover anything new about the universe, and spent more time in front of a TV camera than he did behind the lens of a telescope. But he was extremely good at explaining astronomy and space physics in layman's terms, and was instrumental in popularizing and creating more interest in our universe. He'll go down in the history of science for that talent. Most scientists are about as expressive as basketball players during interviews, and at a time when so much is being learned, and so much research is dependent upon popular support for it's funding, he was the right man in the right place at the right time.

Answer 2

Hipparchus
He is known to have been a working astronomer at least from 147 BC to 127 BC. Hipparchus is considered the greatest astronomical observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity.

Others are just as famous in their day:
* Claudius Ptolemy
* Nicolaus Copernicus
* Tycho Brahe
* Galileo Galilei
* Johannes Kepler
* John Baptist Riccioli
* Giovanni Cassini
* Christiaan Huygens
* Sir Isaac Newton
* Edmond Halley
* Charles Messier
* Joseph Louis Lagrange
* William Herschel
* Guiseppi Piazzi
* Johan Bode
* Pierre Simon Laplace
* Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
* Fredrich Bessel
* Joseph Von Fraunhofer
* Johann Franze Encke
* Friedrich Von Struue
* Wilhem Beer
* Thomas Henderson
* William Lassell
* Sir George Airy
* Urbain Le Verrier
* Johann Gotfried Galle
* Anders Angstrom
* Daniel Kirkwood
* William Huggins
* Sir Josheph Lockyer
* Henry Draper
* Edward Charles Pickering
* Jacobus Cornelius Kaptayn
* Edward Barnard
* Albert Einstein
* Max Planck
* William Fowler
* Joseph Taylor
* Hannes Alven
* Subramanyan Chandra Sekhar
* Robert Wilson
* Antony Hewish
* Arno Penzias
* Russell Hulse
* George Hale
* Annie Jump Cannon
* Maximillian Wolfe
* Willem De Sitter
* Karl Scharzchild
* Arthur Eddington
* Clyde Tombaugh
* Grote Reber
* Edwin Hubble
* Carl Sagan
* Stephen Hawking
* James A Van Allen
* Sir Fred Hoyle
* Alan Guth
http://www.astronomy-for-kids-online.com/famous-astronomer.html

Answer 3

Carl Sagan used to walk among the best, I never forget when he used to talk about the billions and billions of stars in our galaxy and beyond, however Edwin Hubble was one of the most recognized names in the last century astronomy and I can say for sure that Hubble will definitely win the answer to your question, also James Van Allen was an eminence in astronomy, actually he discovered the Van Allen Radiation Belts, he died not too long ago, around the time 'we went to the moon' he was researching on the subject of the radiation belts..☺

Answer 4

Carl Sagan is not a particularly accomplished astronomer, he just writes far out and speculative books that impress people that don't know astronomy or physics. To be frank he isn't taken seriously by professional astronomers as so many of his claims are non-scientific and speculative in nature. Hes never won a Nobel prize in physics for example. the list is endless of people more famous and MORE ACCOMPLISHED in astrophysics, or astronomy than Carl Sagan, . Kepler, Copernicus, Einstein (general relativity), Hubble, angstrom, draper, Dyson, Eddington, focult, newton, gauss, halley, oort, van allen, Ptolemy. all of these people made MUCH more substantive contributions to astrophysics and astronomy than Sagan did.

Answer 5

Sagan is an important figure in astronomy but there are many other greats in the field.

Hubble is one that comes to mind. He was only in the field for a short while but his work made a very lasting impression.

Answer 6

http://library.thinkquest.org/23830/astronomers.htm
Check this link out.
There are 8 significant astronomers that I would say are more important to the discovery and foundation of astronomy.
Sagan is certainly recognized for his passion to educate the public and advance the study of space, astronomy and science in general. He was truly a remarkable man.

Answer 7

Edwin Hubble

Answer 8

There are TONS... How about Galileo Galilei, Edmund Halley ( that's who Halley's Comet is named after), Johannes Kepler, Copernicus, and Ptolemy are the ones that come to mind for me.... I'm sure there are quite a few more!

Answer 9

Percivel Lowell

Answer 10

Galileo