68 Facts About Neil Degrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.

The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Neil Degrasse Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.

From 1995 to 2005, Neil Degrasse Tyson wrote monthly essays in the "Universe" column for Natural History magazine, some of which were later published in his books Death by Black Hole and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

Neil Degrasse Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the US aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission.

Neil Degrasse Tyson was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year.

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Neil Degrasse Tyson was born in Manhattan as the second of three children, into a family living in the Bronx.

Neil Degrasse Tyson's mother, Sunchita Maria Tyson, was a gerontologist for the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and is of Puerto Rican descent.

Neil Degrasse Tyson grew up in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx, and later in Riverdale.

From kindergarten throughout high school, Tyson attended public schools in the Bronx: PS 36 Unionport, PS 81 Robert J Christen, the Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy, and The Bronx High School of Science where he was captain of the wrestling team, editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, and graduated in 1976.

Neil Degrasse Tyson credited Mark Chartrand III, director of the planetarium at the time, as his "first intellectual role model" and his enthusiastic teaching style mixed with humor inspired Tyson to communicate the universe to others the way he did.

Neil Degrasse Tyson obsessively studied astronomy in his teen years, and eventually even gained some fame in the astronomy community by giving lectures on the subject at the age of fifteen.

Neil Degrasse Tyson revisited this moment on his first episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

Neil Degrasse Tyson chose to attend Harvard where he majored in physics and lived in Currier House.

Neil Degrasse Tyson was a member of the crew team during his freshman year, but returned to wrestling, lettering in his senior year.

Neil Degrasse Tyson was active in dance, in styles including jazz, ballet, Afro-Caribbean, and Latin Ballroom.

Neil Degrasse Tyson earned a BA degree in physics at Harvard College in 1980 and then began his graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin, from which he received an MA degree in astronomy in 1983.

Neil Degrasse Tyson's professors encouraged him to consider alternative careers and the committee for his doctoral dissertation was dissolved, ending his pursuit of a doctorate from the University of Texas.

Neil Degrasse Tyson's research has focused on observations in cosmology, stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, bulges, and stellar formation.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has held numerous positions at institutions including the University of Maryland, Princeton University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Hayden Planetarium.

In 1994, Neil Degrasse Tyson joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist while he was a research affiliate in Princeton University.

Neil Degrasse Tyson became acting director of the planetarium in June 1995 and was appointed director in 1996.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has written a number of popular books on astrophysics.

Neil Degrasse Tyson had coined the term in 1996, inspired by how the phenomenon recalls the sun's solstice alignment with the Stonehenge monument in England.

Neil Degrasse Tyson's column influenced his work as a professor with The Great Courses.

In 2001, US President George W Bush appointed Tyson to serve on the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry and in 2004 to serve on the President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, the latter better known as the "Moon, Mars, and Beyond" commission.

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In 2004, Neil Degrasse Tyson hosted the four-part Origins miniseries of the PBS Nova series, and, with Donald Goldsmith, co-authored the companion volume for this series, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years Of Cosmic Evolution.

Neil Degrasse Tyson again collaborated with Goldsmith as the narrator on the documentary 400 Years of the Telescope, which premiered on PBS in April 2009.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has explained that he wanted to look at commonalities between objects, grouping the terrestrial planets together, the gas giants together, and Pluto with like objects, and to get away from simply counting the planets.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has stated on The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and BBC Horizon that this decision has resulted in large amounts of hate mail, much of it from children.

Neil Degrasse Tyson recounted the heated online debate on the Cambridge Conference Network, a "widely read, UK-based Internet chat group", following Benny Peiser's renewed call for reclassification of Pluto's status.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has been vice-president, president, and chairman of the board of the Planetary Society.

Neil Degrasse Tyson was the host of the PBS program Nova ScienceNow until 2011.

Neil Degrasse Tyson attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival symposium in November 2006.

In 2007, Neil Degrasse Tyson was chosen to be a regular on The History Channel's popular series The Universe.

In May 2009, Neil Degrasse Tyson launched a one-hour radio talk show called StarTalk, which he co-hosted with comedian Lynne Koplitz.

In 2012, Neil Degrasse Tyson announced that he would appear in a YouTube series based on his radio show StarTalk.

On February 28,2014, Neil Degrasse Tyson was a celebrity guest at the White House Student Film Festival.

In 2014, Neil Degrasse Tyson helped revive Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series, presenting Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on both FOX and the National Geographic Channel.

Thirteen episodes were aired in the first season, and Neil Degrasse Tyson has stated that if a second season were produced, he would pass the role of host to someone else in the science world.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has written and broadcast extensively about his views of science, spirituality, and the spirituality of science, including the essays "The Perimeter of Ignorance" and "Holy Wars", both appearing in Natural History magazine and the 2006 Beyond Belief workshop.

Neil Degrasse Tyson told a story about being interviewed about a plasma burst from the sun on a local Fox affiliate in 1989.

In 2005, at a conference at the National Academy of Sciences, Neil Degrasse Tyson responded to a question about whether genetic differences might keep women from working as scientists.

Neil Degrasse Tyson is an advocate for expanding the operations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has suggested that the general public has a tendency to overestimate how much revenue is allocated to the space agency.

In March 2012, Neil Degrasse Tyson testified before the United States Senate Science Committee, stating that:.

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Neil Degrasse Tyson has made appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and The Rachel Maddow Show.

Neil Degrasse Tyson served as one of the central interviewees on the various episodes of the History Channel science program, The Universe.

Neil Degrasse Tyson participated on the NPR radio quiz program Wait Wait.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has spoken numerous times on the Philadelphia morning show, Preston and Steve, on 93.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has been featured as a guest interviewee on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Radiolab, Skepticality, and The Joe Rogan Experience podcasts and has been in several of the Symphony of Science videos.

Neil Degrasse Tyson lived near the World Trade Center and was an eyewitness to the September 11,2001, attacks.

In 2007, Tyson was the keynote speaker during the dedication ceremony of Deerfield Academy's new science center, the Koch Center in Massachusetts, named for David H Koch '59.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has appeared as the keynote speaker at The Amazing Meeting, a science and skepticism conference hosted by the James Randi Educational Foundation.

Neil Degrasse Tyson made a guest appearance as a version of himself in the episode "Brain Storm" of Stargate Atlantis alongside Bill Nye and in the episode "The Apology Insufficiency" of The Big Bang Theory.

Neil Degrasse Tyson made an appearance in an episode of Martha Speaks as himself.

Neil Degrasse Tyson is a frequent participant in the website Reddit's AMAs where he is responsible for three of the top ten most popular AMAs of all time.

Neil Degrasse Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Krypton, and picked Corvus, which is Latin for "Crow", and which is the mascot of Superman's high school, the Smallville Crows.

Neil Degrasse Tyson had a minor appearance as himself in the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Neil deGrasse Tyson was listed by at least two commentators as a possible nominee for the position of Science Laureate, if the act were to pass.

On March 8,2014, Neil Degrasse Tyson made a SXSW Interactive keynote presentation at the Austin Convention Center.

Neil Degrasse Tyson made two more appearances with CinemaSins, co-reviewing Interstellar on September 29,2015, and The Martian on March 31,2016.

In 2016, Neil Degrasse Tyson narrated and was a script supervisor for the science documentary, Food Evolution, directed by Academy Award nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy.

In 2017, Neil Degrasse Tyson appeared on Logic's album Everybody as God, uncredited on various tracks, and credited on the song "AfricAryaN" as well as on "The Moon" on Musiq Soulchild's album Feel the Real.

In 2018, Neil Degrasse Tyson made a second guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory as himself, together with fellow television personality Bill Nye, in the first episode of the show's final season.

Neil Degrasse Tyson met his wife in a physics class at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Neil Degrasse Tyson is a wine enthusiast whose collection was featured in the May 2000 issue of the Wine Spectator and the Spring 2005 issue of The World of Fine Wine.

Katelyn Allers, a professor at Bucknell University, alleged Neil Degrasse Tyson touched her inappropriately at a 2009 American Astronomical Society gathering.

In what Neil Degrasse Tyson described as a Native American handshake, he held her hand and looked her in the eye for ten seconds.