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Council of Scientific Society Presidents | Friday, 30 July 2010
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Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science PDF Print E-mail

In addition, the CSSP has initiated an award for increasing the public understanding of science. Its purpose is to honor those who have become concurrently accomplished as researchers and/or educators, and as widely recognized magnifiers of the public's understanding of science. Winners include:

1993 Carl Sagan, Director, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Cornell University
1994 Edward Wilson, Curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
1995 Gilbert Grosvenor and William Allen, National Geographic Society and Magazine
1996 Nova Television Series and Paula Apsell, Executive Producer
1997 Bill Nye, The Science Guy
1998Alan Alda, John Angier, Graham Chedd, Scientific American Frontiers
1999
Richard Harris; Ira Flatow, National Public Radio
2000John Rennie, Editor, Scientific American
 2001Science Times, The New York Times
John Noble Wilford, Journalist, The New York Times
2002 Philip G. Zimbardo, Discovering Psychology, PBS
2003 Island Press Publishers
2004 Popular Science
2005 Cheryl Heuton & Nick Falacci, NUMB3RS
2006 Court-TV
2007 Ken Weiss & Usha McFarling, Los Angeles Times
2009Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times

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S. Porges (FBPCS) (L) and
P. Zimbardo (APA) (R)
discuss behavioral science frontiers.