Carl Edward Sagan was born on Nov. 9, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended college at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960, at the age of 26. After completing postdoctoral work, he taught at Harvard University. When that school declined to grant Sagan tenure status … Continue reading Carl Sagan – A biography on 88th birth anniversary