Science Popularizer / Communicator
by dan_dassow | created - 20 Dec 2013 | updated - 08 Jan 2014 | PublicWhich of these people well known for explaining science to the public has done the most effective job.
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1. Carl Sagan
Writer | Contact
Astronomer, educator and author Carl Sagan was perhaps the world's greatest popularizer of science, reaching millions of people through newspapers, magazines and television broadcasts. He is well-known for his work on the PBS series Cosmos (1980), the Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning show that ...
Produced, wrote and hosted. Cosmos (1980). An American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.
2. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Actor | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.
Born and raised in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was ...
Produced, hosted and wrote Nova ScienceNow (2005) and Nova (1974). An American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
3. Don Herbert
Actor | Mr. Wizard's World
Don Herbert was born on July 10, 1917 in Waconia, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Mr. Wizard's World (1983), Scarecrows (1988) and Mr. Wizard (1951). He was married to Norma Herbert and Maraleita Dutton. He died on June 12, 2007 in Bell Canyon, California, USA.
4. Bill Nye
Writer | Bill Nye, the Science Guy
Bill Nye was born on November 27, 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993), Flubber (1997) and Stargate: Atlantis (2004). He has been married to Liza Mundy since June 22, 2022. He was previously married to Blair Tindall.
5. Paul Zaloom
Actor | Beakman's World
Paul Zaloom was born on December 14, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Beakman's World (1992), Dante's Inferno (2007) and The Equalizer (1985).
6. Isaac Asimov
Writer | I, Robot
Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Judah Ozimov, on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi shtetl, near Smolensk, Russia. He was the oldest of three children. His father, named Judah Ozimov, and his mother, named Anna Rachel Ozimov (nee Berman), were Orthodox Jews. Ozimov family were millers (the name Ozimov ...
A prolific American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
7. Arthur C. Clarke
Writer | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke was born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England in December 16, 1917. In 1936 he moved to London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society. There he started to experiment with astronautic material in the BIS, write the BIS Bulletin and science fiction. During ...
Co-wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). A science writer, who was both an avid popularizer of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability.
8. James Burke
Writer | The Trigger Effect
James Burke was born on December 22, 1936 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Trigger Effect (1996), Connections 2 (1994) and The Day the Universe Changed (1985).
9. Stephen Hawking
Actor | Star Trek: The Next Generation
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 on Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
His scientific works include a collaboration with ...
An English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
10. David Attenborough
Self | Blue Planet II
Born 8 May 1926, the younger brother of actor Lord Richard Attenborough. He never expressed a wish to act and, instead, studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating in 1947, the year he began his two years National Service in the Royal Navy. In 1952, he joined BBC Television at ...
Studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. As director of Programmes with editorial responsibility for both the BBC's television networks, wrote and presented Life on Earth (1979) (then the most ambitious series ever produced by the BBC Natural History Unit). This became a trilogy, with The Living Planet (1984) and The Trials of Life (1990). He also wrote and produced a number of other series in natural history.
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