Ann Druyan ( ; born June 13, 1949) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American writer, producer, and director specializing in the communication of science.
She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.
She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.
She wrote the introduction to, and edited The Varieties of Scientific Experience, published from Sagan's 1985 Gifford lectures. In February 2020, Druyan published Cosmos: Possible Worlds, a companion volume to the television series of the same name, which premiered in March 2020. ==Work in science== As creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, Druyan worked with a team to design a complex message, including music and images, for possible alien civilizations.
This included an arrest in June 1986, when Druyan crossed a white painted line indicating the test site's boundary; Sagan, who attended the same protest with Druyan, was not arrested. In the early 1990s, Druyan worked with Sagan and then-Senator Al Gore, Jr.
That was Voyager." The segment also discussed Sagan's suggestion, in 1990, that Voyager 1 turn its cameras back towards Earth to take a series of photographs showing the planets of our solar system.
This included an arrest in June 1986, when Druyan crossed a white painted line indicating the test site's boundary; Sagan, who attended the same protest with Druyan, was not arrested. In the early 1990s, Druyan worked with Sagan and then-Senator Al Gore, Jr.
Druyan is credited, with Carl Sagan, as the co-creator and co-producer of the 1997 feature film Contact. In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would executive produce, co-write, and be one of the episodic directors for a sequel to A Personal Voyage, to be called A Spacetime Odyssey, which began airing in March 2014.
She currently serves a member of their Advisory Board. Druyan has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) for over 10 years and was president from 2006 to 2010. ==Honors== An asteroid discovered in 1998 was named in Druyan's honor by its discoverer Eleanor F.
Druyan and Soter also co-wrote The Search for Life: Are We Alone, narrated by Harrison Ford, which also debuted at the Hayden's Rose Center. In 2000, Druyan co-founded Cosmos Studios, Inc, with Joseph Firmage.
and a host of religious and scientific leaders to bring the scientific and religious worlds together in a unified effort to preserve the environment, resulting in the Declaration of the 'Mission to Washington'. Druyan served as a founding director of the Children's Health Fund until the spring of 2004, a project that provides mobile pediatric care to homeless and disadvantaged children in more than half a dozen cities.
Both records have a projected shelf life of one billion years. Druyan is a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims for the Paranormal (CSICOP). Druyan served as program director of the first solar-sail deep-space mission, Cosmos 1, launched on a Russian ICBM in 2005. Druyan is involved in multiple Breakthrough Initiatives.
She currently serves a member of their Advisory Board. Druyan has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) for over 10 years and was president from 2006 to 2010. ==Honors== An asteroid discovered in 1998 was named in Druyan's honor by its discoverer Eleanor F.
Druyan was presented with a plaque on Sagan's sixtieth birthday, which is inscribed: "Asteroid 2709 Sagan in eternal companion orbit with asteroid 4970 Druyan, symbolic of their love and admiration for each other." In November 2006, Druyan was a speaker at " Science, Religion, Reason and Survival". In January 2007, she was a juror at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, responsible for selecting the winner of the Alfred P.
Druyan was presented with a plaque on Sagan's sixtieth birthday, which is inscribed: "Asteroid 2709 Sagan in eternal companion orbit with asteroid 4970 Druyan, symbolic of their love and admiration for each other." In November 2006, Druyan was a speaker at " Science, Religion, Reason and Survival". In January 2007, she was a juror at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, responsible for selecting the winner of the Alfred P.
Sloan Prize for films about science and technology. In November 2007, Druyan was awarded the title of "Humanist Laureate" by the International Academy of Humanism. In October 2019, the Center for Inquiry West opened the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Theater in Los Angeles. ==Religious and philosophical views== In an interview with Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post, Druyan stated that her early interest in science stemmed from a fascination with Karl Marx.
In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan, in which she described her works, the life of her husband, Carl Sagan, and their marriage. Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series A Personal Voyage, along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter.
She currently serves a member of their Advisory Board. Druyan has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) for over 10 years and was president from 2006 to 2010. ==Honors== An asteroid discovered in 1998 was named in Druyan's honor by its discoverer Eleanor F.
Druyan is credited, with Carl Sagan, as the co-creator and co-producer of the 1997 feature film Contact. In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would executive produce, co-write, and be one of the episodic directors for a sequel to A Personal Voyage, to be called A Spacetime Odyssey, which began airing in March 2014.
She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, A Spacetime Odyssey and its sequel series, Possible Worlds, as well as the book of the same name.
Druyan is credited, with Carl Sagan, as the co-creator and co-producer of the 1997 feature film Contact. In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would executive produce, co-write, and be one of the episodic directors for a sequel to A Personal Voyage, to be called A Spacetime Odyssey, which began airing in March 2014.
In 2015, it was announced that Warner Brothers was in development on a drama about Sagan and Druyan's relationship, to be produced by producer Lynda Obst and Druyan. == Early life == Druyan was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Pearl A.
Druyan's role on the project was discussed on the July 8, 2018 60 Minutes segment "The Little Spacecraft That Could".
Sloan Prize for films about science and technology. In November 2007, Druyan was awarded the title of "Humanist Laureate" by the International Academy of Humanism. In October 2019, the Center for Inquiry West opened the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Theater in Los Angeles. ==Religious and philosophical views== In an interview with Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post, Druyan stated that her early interest in science stemmed from a fascination with Karl Marx.
She wrote the introduction to, and edited The Varieties of Scientific Experience, published from Sagan's 1985 Gifford lectures. In February 2020, Druyan published Cosmos: Possible Worlds, a companion volume to the television series of the same name, which premiered in March 2020. ==Work in science== As creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, Druyan worked with a team to design a complex message, including music and images, for possible alien civilizations.
The series went on to become the most-watched series ever for National Geographic Channel International, with at least some part of the 13-episode series watched by 135 million people, including 45 million in the U.S. In March 2020, a third season of Cosmos, named Possible Worlds, for which Druyan was executive producer, writer, and director, premiered on National Geographic.
In a 2020 interview with Skeptical Inquirer, Druyan discussed 4970 Druyan and the asteroid named after her late husband, saying that 4970 Druyan is in a "wedding ring orbit" around the Sun with 2709 Sagan.
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