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Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

cosmologist, astrophysicist, planetary scientist, space scientist, science communicator, astronomer, physicist, naturalist, television presenter

  • University of Chicago

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The Dragons of Eden
Contact
Conversations with Carl Sagan
Comet
The Demon-Haunted World
Cosmos
Billions and billions
Broca's Brain
The Varieties of Scientific Experience
Moḥo shel Broḳah
Pale Blue Dot
Creations
The Cosmic Connection
Planets
The Cold and the Dark
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Murmurs of Earth
Intelligent life in the universe
Planetary Atmospheres
A path here no man thought
Selected from Cosmos (Ourworld)
Life in the Universe
UFO's
The Symmetric Group:Representations, Combinatorial Algorithms, and Symmetric Functions
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Visions for the 21st Century
Planetary exploration
USA and USSR
Other worlds
Organic matter and the moon
The evolution of a planetary system
Stars
The cosmosphere
Dal Big Bang ai buchi neri
ANTHROPOGENIC ALBEDO CHANGES AND THE EARTH'S CLIMATE
Nucleus
The scientific and historical rationales for solar system exploration
Reader Study Guide for Cosmos
The Cosmic Connection
The radiation balance of Venus
Untitled on Mars
Magaʻ
The scientific and historical rationales for solar system exploration
Untitled
George Gamow
George Gamow (1904-1968)

physicist, inventor, nuclear physicist, cosmologist, biochemist, astronomer, astrophysicist

  • Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University, Odesa University

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Laughing Space
The Expert Dreamers
One, two, three ... infinity
Mr. Tompkins in paperback
A star called the sun
The New World of Mr Tompkins
One, two, three ... infinity
One, two, three ... infinity
Un, deux, trois...l'infini
Cong yi dao wu qiong da
One, two, three ... infinity
Thirty years that shook physics
Physics
Gravity
Puzzle-math
Matter, earth, and sky
Biography of physics
Mr. Tompkins Gets Serious
The birth and death of the sun
Biography of the earth
Biografia De La Fisica/ Biography of Physics
Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland
The creation of the universe
The great physicists from Galileo to Einstein
Mr Tompkins in paperback
My world line; an informal autobiography
The moon
Cosmology, fusion & other matters
A Star called the sun
Theory of atomic nucleus and nuclear energy-sources
Biography of physics
Mr. Tompkins explores the atom
The creation of the universe
A plan et called earth
Atomic energy in cosmic and human life
The atom and its nucleus
A planet called earth
Matter, earth, and sky
Mr. Tompkins inside himself
Thirty years that shook physics
Dunyamizin hayat hikayesi
Matter, Earth, and sky
Structure of atomic nuclei and nuclear transformations
Thirty years that shook physics
Biography of the earth
Physics: foundations and frontiers
Physics: foundations and frontiers
The atom and its nucleus
TRENTE ANNEES QUI EBRANLERENT LA PHYSIQUE. HISTOIRE DE LA THEORIE QUANTIQUE
Theory of atomic nucleus and nuclear energy-sources
the moon
Theory of atomic nucleus and nuclear energy-sources
Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland; or, Stories of C, G, and H. Illustrated by John Hookham
Atomic energy in cosmic and human life
Jeux mathématiques
Matière, terre et ciel
Mr Tompkins learns the facts of life
Una estrella llamada Sol
Monsieur Tompkins au pays des merveilles
Gravity
La gravitation
Matter Earth and Sky
Biography
Thiry years that shook physics
Biographie de la terre
A star called the Sun
Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland or Stories of c, G, and h
Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, or, Stories of c, G, and h
Monsieur Tompkins s'explore lui-même
Der Bau des Atomkerns und die Radioaktivität
Thirty years that shook physics. The story of quantum theory. Illustrations by the author.
Constitution of atomic nuclei and radioactivity
One, two, three ... infinity
Biography of the earth, its past, present, and future
A star called the sun / George Gamow
Geburt und Tod der Sonne
One Two Three..
Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself
La creación del universo
Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland
Matematiska tankelekar
Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland
Mr. Tompkins explores the atom
Physics
Hoshi
The atom and its nucleus
Mr. Tompkins i Droemmeland eller Historien om lille c, store G og lille h
Structure of atomic nuclei and nuclear transfomations
Matter, earth, and sky
My world line
The birth and death of the sun
Di Qiu gu jin tan
Nacimiento y muerte del sol
Mr Tomkins in wonderland
Wu li shi jie qi yu ji
Mr. Tompkins i Droemmeland eller historien om c, G og h
Prikl͡iucheni͡ia mistera Tompkinsa
Mr. Tompkins in paperback
Mr. Tompkins in paperback
Expanding universe and the origin of galaxies
Theory of atomic nucleus and nuclear energy-sources
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954)

physicist, mathematician

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Titanic Cat
A Briefer History of Time
The Drunkard's Walk
Feynman's Rainbow
Elastic
The Upright Thinkers
War of the Worldviews
The Grand Design
The last dinosaur
Stephen Hawking
Euclid's Window
Subliminal
Emotional
Stephen Hawking
O andar do bêbado
Nick Herbert
Nick Herbert (born 1936)

physicist, pedagogue

  • Ohio State University, Stanford University

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Semiotext(e) SF
Physics on All Fours
Faster than light
Quantum reality
Elemental mind
Why Vote Conservative 2015
Temel Bilinc
Willy Ley
Willy Ley (1906-1969)

physicist, flight engineer, journalist, inventor

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The Science Fiction Roll of Honor
The Exploration of Mars
Another look at Atlantis
Rockets, Missiles
Beyond the Solar System
Conquest of Space
Willy Ley's For your information
Rockets, missiles, and men in space
The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn
Rockets, missiles, and space travel
The poles
Exotic zoology
Dawn of zoology
The meteorite craters
Missiles, moonprobes, and megaparsecs
Satellites, rockets, and outer space
Dragons in amber
Our work in space
Another look at Atlantis, and fifteen other essays
Watchers of the skies
The exploration of Mars
Ranger to the moon
Events in space
The conquest of space
Engineers' dreams
Gas giants
Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1953
Willy Ley's Exotic zoology
Across the Space Frontier
Rockets, missiles, and space travel
Watchers of the Skies
Raumfahrttechnik 4.A.
Konrad Gesner, Leben und Werk
Beyond the solar system
Space travel
Harnessing space
Dragons in amber
Die möglichkeit der weltraumfahrt; allgemeinverständliche beiträge zum raumschiffahrtsproblem, von professor Hermann Oberth, dr. Franz v. Hoefft, dr.-ing. Walter Hohmann, dr. Karl Debus, ingenieur Guido von Pirquet und ingenieur Fr. W. Sander, herausgegeben von Willy Ley; mit 70 abbildungen
The drifting continents
Worlds of the past
Engineers' Dreams
Watchers of the skies
Rockets
The poles
The days of creation
Watchers of the Skies
The exploration of Mars
Rockets, missiles and space travel
Bombs and bombing
Rockets and space travel
Shells and shooting
Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1952
Man-made satellites
The Conquest of Space
Rockets
LIFE NATURE LIBRARY THE POLES
Salamanders and Other
Willy Ley's For your information
The lungfish, the dodo & the unicorn
Another Look At Atlantis
Harnessing Space
The exploration of Mars
Rockets, Missiles, and Men in Space
The Poles (Life Nature Library)
Rockets and space travel
The poles, (Life nature library)
The discovery of the elements
Beyond the solar system
Watchers of the skies; an informal history of astronomy from Babylon to the space age
On Earth and in the Sky
Missiles Moonpr
Watchers of the Skies
Worlds of the Past
Inside the Orbit of the Earth
Die Himmelskunde
Rockets
Watchers
Visitors from afar
Salamanders and other wonders
Mariner IV to Mars
The borders of mathematics
Die Fahrt ins Weltall
Watchers of the skies; an informal history of astronomy from Babylon to the space age
THE DRIFTING CONTINENTS
Engineers Dreams
Les pôles
Gas Giants; the Largest Planets
Events in space
Exotic Zoology
Les pôles
Missiles, Moonprobes And Megaparsecs
The Poles
The Lungfish, The Dodo & The Unicorn An Excursion Into Romantic Zoology, New Edition, Completely Revised and Enlarged
Harnessing space
Visitors from afar
Exotic zoology
Lungfish, Dodo
Our work in space
Rockets, missiles, and space travel
Lung fish and the unicorn
Bombs and bombing
Space stations
Mariner IV to Mars
Planets
The Conquest of Space
Ranger to Moon
Engineers' dreams
Inside the orbit of the earth
Man-made satellites
Rockets, missiles, and space travel
Rockets, missiles, and men in space
Ballistics
Our work in space
The lungfish and the unicorn
THE METEORITE CRATERS (Geology, astronomy)
The poles
Ranger to the Moon
Satellites, rockets and outer space
Watchers of the skies; an informal history of astronomy from Babylon to the space age
Engineer's dreams
Laṿyanim, ṭilim ṿehe-ḥalal ha-ḥitson
Rockets, missiles, and space travel
Planets
Space pilots
Exotic zoology
Exotic zoology
Visitors from afar: the comets
Watchers of the skies
Rockets, missiles, and space travel
Dawn of zoology
Inside the orbit of the earth
Engineers' dreams
Exploration of Mars
The borders of mathematics
ha-Ḳeṭavim
Watchers of the skies
Beyond the solar system
The lungfish and the unicorn
Alan E. Nourse
Alan E. Nourse (1928-1992)

physicist

  • Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania

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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
One Hundred
More Penguin Science Fiction
The Science Fictional Solar System
Fifty short science fiction tales
Great Science Fiction About Doctors
Laughing Space
Young Mutants
Isaac Asimov Presents Great Science Fiction #13 (1951)
The fourth horseman
The bladerunner
Star Surgeon
Lorelei of the Red Mist & Gold in the Sky
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 18 (1956)
The Mercy Men
Tiger by the tail
Star Surgeon
Psi High, and others
Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow
Gold in the Sky
Trouble on Titan
The mercy men
Marley's Chain
Circus
Fourth Horseman
Gold in the Sky
Letter of the Law
Meeting of the Board
Link
Native Soil
Image of the Gods
Rx for tomorrow
Derelict
Martyr
The counterfeit man
Problem
Coffin Cure
Infinite Intruder
Second Sight
Dark Door
Bear Trap
So You Want to Be a Scientist
Fantastic Stories Presents Science Fiction Super Pack #1
Fantastic Stories Present the Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1
The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
Worlds of If Super Pack #3
The body
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 2 1978
Menstruation
Birth control
If, February 1958
Worlds of If Super Pack #1
Hormones
AIDS
Teen guide to AIDS prevention
Your immune system
Nine planets
Sexually transmitted diseases
Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack
Radio Astronomy
Fractures, dislocations, and sprains
Inside the Mayo Clinic
The asteroids
Menstruation, just plain talk
Viruses
Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #3
Ladies' home journal family medical guide
The practice
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
The backyard astronomer
The giant planets
Teen Guide to Birth Control
Survival
Lumps, bumps, and rashes
The outdoorsman's medical guide
Vitamins
Teen guide to safe sex
So you want to be a chemist
Clear skin, healthy skin
So you want to be a doctor
The virus invaders
Galaxy Science Fiction
The tooth book
Herpes
Fantastic Stories Presents the Worlds of If Super Pack #2
The practice
So you want to be an engineer
The body
AIDS Prevention
Brain Sinner, The, & Death from the Skies
So you want to be a physicist
Rocket to Limbo
Raiders from the rings
The Practice
Venus and Mercury
Rx for tomorrow
Universe, earth and atom
素数の違い
Scavengers in Space
Rocket to limbo
Star Surgeon
Star Surgeon
Le corps
Universe, Earth, and atom
The body
Trouble on Titan
Blade Runner
Martyr
Man Obsessed
The management of a medical practice
Coffin Cure
Beyond the Rings of Saturn & A Man Obsessed
Survival (Teen Guides)
Contamination Crew by Alan E. Nourse, Science Fiction, Adventure
Tiger by the tail,and other science fiction stories
Contamination Crew
Second Sight
Rocket to Limbo
The Bladerunner (Prologue Books)
Prime Difference
Contamination Crew
Infinite Intruder
So You Want to Be a Nurse
Nine planets [by] Alan E. Nourse
Letter of the Law
So you want to be a nurse
Contamination Crew
Body, The
Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers - Alan E. Nourse
Brightside Crossing
Native Soil
Psi High, and others
Alan E. Nourse Super Pack
Birth Control (Teen Guides)
So You Want to Be a Surgeon
Beyond infinity
Raiders from the rings
Derelict
So You Want to Be a Lawyer
Gold in the Sky
Peacemaker
Nine planets
The Coffin Cure
To anthropino soma
Star Surgeon
So you want to be a surgeon
Bear Trap
The Native Soil
17th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack
Scavengers in Space
So you want to be a chemist
Image of the Gods
Star Surgeon
THE BODY
Link
Star Surgeon Science Fiction
Star Surgeon
Peacemaker
Star Surgeon
Problem
Safe Sex (Teen Guides)
Rocket to Limbo
Letter of the Law
Bear Trap
Clear Skin, Healthy Skin (A Concise Guide)
Scavengers in Space
Universe Between
Brightside Crossing
Meeting of the Board
Alan E. Nourse Resurrected: The Works of Alan E. Nourse
The elk hunt
The Link
Derelict
Universe Earth and Atom the Story of Physi
The Bladerunner
Image of the Gods
AIDS Prevention (Teen Guides)
Gold in the Sky Illustrated
Raiders from the Rings
Marley's Chain
12 Worlds of Alan E. Nourse: Tales From The Golden Age Of Science Fiction!
Consignment
Dark Door
Marley's Chain by Alan E. Nourse, Science Fiction, Adventure
Trouble on Titan
Junior intern
The Body (Life Science Library)
The invaders are coming!
Star surgeon
The Brain Sinner
The universe between
Bear Trap
Ounce of Cure
Teen Guide to Survival (Teen Guides Series)
Nine planets
Scavengers in space
My Friend Bobby
Universe, Earth and atom
Camille Flammarion
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925)

astronomer, balloonist

  • seminary of Langres, Association polytechnique

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Lumen
Omega: the last days of the world
Omega
Les mondes imaginaires et les mondes réels
Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars
Dans le ciel et sur la terre, tableaux et harmonies ..
L' inconnu
Omega the Last Days of the World
Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens
Mysterious psychic forces
Haunted houses
Les merveilles célestes
Merveilles célestes
Histoire du ciel
Astronomie populaire
Urania: A Romance
Thunder and lightning
Mystrious psychic forces
La planète Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité
Death and its mystery ..
The atmosphere
Dieu dans la nature
Death and its mystery
Astronomy for amateurs
Le tremblement de terre des Alpes
Les étoiles et les curiosités du ciel: description complète du ciel visible ..
Études et lectures sur l'astronomie
Dieu dans la nature
Contemplations scientifiques
Pluralite des mondes habites: etude ou l'on expose les conditions d'habitabilite des terres ..
Omega
L'astronomie
La planıete Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité
The atmosphere
Death And Its Mystery Before Death
Death and Its Mystery - Before Death - Proofs of the Existence of the Soul - Volume I;with Introductory Poems by Emily Dickinson & Percy Bysshe Shelley
Urania
Apocalypse
Un neveu de Napoléon Ier, le Prince Napoléon, Jérome, 1822-1891
Le monde avant la création de l'homme
Mémoires
Les étoiles et les curiosités du ciel
La mentalité allemande dans l'histoire
Les Terres du ciel
Fantômes et sciences d'observation
Stella
Mysterious Psychic Forces: An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research ..
Catalogue des étoiles doubles et multiples en mouvement relatif certain, comprenant toutes les observations faites sur chaque couple depuis sa découverte, et les résultats conclus de l'étude des mouvements
The Flammarion book of astronomy
Contemplaciones' cientificas
The World of Dreams and Telepathy in Dreams
Premonitory Dreams and Divination of the Future
De Paris à Vaucouleurs à vol d'oiseau
Death and its mystery
Death and Its Mystery - after Death - Manifestations and Apparitions of the Dead; the Soul after Death - Volume III;with Introductory Poems by Emily Dickinson & Percy Bysshe Shelley
Urania
Flammarion
Hallucinations
Of Telepathic Communications Made By The Dying And Of Apparitions
L' inconnu et les problèmes psychiques
The Unknown
Lumen
Les maisons hantées
Catalogue des étoiles doubles et multiples, en mouvement relatif certain: comprenant toutes les ..
Le Monde Avant la Creation de lHomme
Popular Astronomy
Les éruptions volcaniques et les tremblements de terre
Histoire du ciel
Uranie
Astronomie populaire Cambridge Library Collection Astronomy
The Psychic Action Of One Mind Upon Another
Spirit Communication
La pluralité des mondes habités
Distant Sight In Dreams
VOYAGES AERIENS
Dios en la naturaleza
La mort et son mystère
Travels in the Air
Monde Avant la Création de L'homme
Fine Del Mondo
Atmosphere
Distances of the Stars - and Other Essays on Astronomy
Dreams of an astronomer
Voyages aériens
Thunder and lighting
Uranie
Astronomie des dames
ETUDES ET LECTURES SUR L'ASTRONOMIE
Astronomie Populaire
Fin du Monde
Ignoto e I Problemi Dell'Anima
La mort, le rêve, et l'univers
L'Inconnu
Book of Astronomy
Lumen
Les Forces Naturelles Inconnues
astronomie
Histoire du Ciel
Urania
Uranie
Études et lectures sur l'astronomie
Urania
inconnu
Thunder And Lightning
Astronomy
Fin du Monde
Omega - the Last Days of the World;with the Introductory Essay 'Distances of the Stars'
Death And Its Mystery
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
The unknown =
Mysterious psychic forces
Omega
Terre Del Cielo
Thunder and lightning
Pluralite des Mondes Habites
L'inconnu et les problèmes psychiques
Travels in the Air
Stella
De Paris à Vaucouleurs à vol d'oiseau
DREAMS OF AN ASTRONOMER
Astronomy for Amateurs
Death and Its Mystery
Études et Lectures Sur l'astronomie; Volume 5
astronomie; Volume 5
Les forces naturelles inconnues
La atmósfera: Los grandes fenómenos de la naturaleza
Death and Its Mystery
Pluralità Dei Mondi Abitati
Mémoires; biographiques et philosophiques d'un astronome
L'atmosphere
Atlas celeste
Les mondes imaginaires et les mondes réels
The wonders of the heavens
Das bewohnte Welten-All
Communication de M. Camille Flammarion
ha-Shamayim
Urania
L'atmosphe re et les grands phe nome nes de la nature
Travels in the air
Études et lectures sur l'astronomie
Les étoiles et les curiosités du ciel
Dieu dans la nature
Death and its mystery
La muerte según Camilo Flammarion
Les héros du travail
Jīrjīrak
L'inconnu, the unknown
Popular astronomy
The marvels of the heavens
Hanramatchʻeli nkaragrakan astghabashkhutʻiwn
Verldens undergång
Nevedeomoe
Vie de Copernic
Astronomie populaire
Astronomi kĕneki
La mort et son mystère ...
La fin du monde
Światy nieznane
Gott in der Natur
Death and its mystery
Death and its mystery before death
La planete Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité
La pluralité des mondes habités
Urania
Popular astronomy
La pluralité des mondes habités
Les terres du ciel
Michi no sekai e
Dreams of an astronomer
Tomas M. Milich
Tomas M. Milich (born 1932)

physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist, historian, faculty member, political activist, lecturer, lawyer

  • Cornell University, New York University

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A view from the year 3000
The 100
The 100
Extraterrestrials Where Are They?
Understanding human history
The One Hundred: The 100
Extraterrestrials--where are they?
Big-time baseball
100 Maiores Personalidades da Historia (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Preserving western civilization
En Etkin 100
Dünyaya Yön Veren En Etkin 100
Puzzles and Paradoxes
Extraterrestrials
The 100. A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History