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...academics have long been writing books for larger audiences. Former professor of psychology B.F. Skinner popularized the psychological theory of behaviorism in his Walden II, and most of astrophysicist Carl Sagan's later work was geared for popular appeal...
Some academics who do succeed in popular writing have worried that this will cause them to lose the intellectual respect of their peers, Freed says, pointing to Carl Sagan as an example...
Although they've found no aliens thus far, Leigh says that Horowitz did manage in part to inspire the Jodie Foster character, Ellie Arroway, in the Carl Sagan novel Contact, which was subsequently turned into a popular movie of the same name...
Leigh says Sagan, who co-authored a paper with Horowitz in 1993 and published the best-selling Contact in 1995, had the fictional Arroway work on some of the same projects Horowitz worked on in real life...
...sociology department at Berkeley is a very exciting place, in my view the finest in the country, and Berkeley is a beautiful city," Sagan says...