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Neil deGrasse Tyson : Astrophysics, Physical Cosmology, Science
Communication
By: Clay Death Date: June 3, 2015, 8:19 pm
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tyson - Apollo 40th anniversary 2009.jpg
Tyson hosting the 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11 at
the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, July 2009
Born
October 5, 1958 (age 56)
Manhattan, New York City, United States
Fields
Astrophysics, physical cosmology, science communication
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History, PBS, Planetary Society
Alma mater:
Harvard University (A.B.)
University of Texas at Austin (M.A.)
Columbia University (M.Phil., Ph.D.)
Thesis
A study of the abundance distributions along the minor axis of
the Galactic bulge (1991)
Doctoral advisor
R. Michael Rich
Influences
Isaac Newton, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein
Notable awards
NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2004)
Klopsteg Memorial Award (2007)
Public Welfare Medal (2015)
Spouse
Alice Young
(1988–present; 2 children)
Signature
Neil deGrasse Tyson (/ˈniːəl
dəˈɡræs ˈtaɪsən/; born October 5,
1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and
science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P.
Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for
Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the
American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the
Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research
associate in the department since 2003.
Born in Manhattan, New York City, Tyson became interested in
astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden
Planetarium. After graduating from The Bronx High School of
Science, where he was editor-in-chief of the Physical Science
Journal, he completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard
University in 1980. After receiving a master's degree in
astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, he
earned his master's (1989) and doctorate (1991) in astrophysics
from Columbia University. For the next three years, he was a
postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, and in
1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and
the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and
lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and
oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was
completed in 2000.
From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the "Universe"
column for Natural History magazine, some of which were
published in his book Death by Black Hole (2007). During the
same period, he wrote a monthly column in Star Date magazine,
answering questions about the universe under the pen name
"Merlin". Material from the column appeared in his books
Merlin's Tour of the Universe (1998) and Just Visiting This
Planet (1998). Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on
the future of the U.S. aerospace industry, and on the 2004 Moon,
Mars and Beyond commission. He was awarded the NASA
Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year. From 2006
to 2011, he hosted the television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS.
Since 2009, he has hosted the weekly podcast Star Talk. In 2014,
he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a
reboot of Carl Sagan's 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.[1]
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded Tyson the Public
Welfare Medal in 2015 for his "extraordinary role in exciting
the public about the wonders of science".[2]
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Career:
Tyson's research has focused on observations in cosmology,
stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, bulges, and stellar
formation. He has held numerous positions at institutions
including the University of Maryland, Princeton University, the
American Museum of Natural History, and Hayden Planetarium.
In 1994, Tyson joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff
scientist while he was a research affiliate in Princeton
University. He became acting director of the planetarium in June
1995 and was appointed director in 1996.[32] As director, he
oversaw the planetarium's $210 million reconstruction project,
which was completed in 2000. Upon being asked for his thoughts
on becoming director, Tyson said "...when I was a kid... there
were scientists and educators on the staff at the Hayden
Planetarium... who invested their time and energy in my
enlightenment... and I've never forgotten that. And to end up
back there as its director, I feel this deep sense of duty, that
I serve in the same capacity for people who come through the
facility today, that others served for me".[33]
Tyson has written a number of popular books on astronomy. In
1995, he began to write the "Universe" column for Natural
History magazine. In a column he authored for a special edition
of the magazine, called "City of Stars", in 2002, Tyson
popularized the term "Manhattanhenge" to describe the two days
annually on which the evening sun aligns with the street grid in
Manhattan, making the sunset visible along unobstructed side
streets. He had coined the term in 1996, inspired by how the
phenomenon recalls the sun's solstice alignment with the
Stonehenge monument in England.[34] Tyson's column also
influenced his work as a professor with The Great Courses.[35]
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.
Soon afterward he was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public
Service Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by NASA.[36]
In 2004, Tyson hosted the four-part Origins miniseries of the
PBS Nova series,[37] and, with Donald Goldsmith, co-authored the
companion volume for this series, Origins: Fourteen Billion
Years Of Cosmic Evolution.[38] He again collaborated with
Goldsmith as the narrator on the documentary 400 Years of the
Telescope, which premiered on PBS in April 2009.[39]
As director of the Hayden Planetarium, Tyson bucked traditional
thinking in order to keep Pluto from being referred to as the
ninth planet in exhibits at the center. 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. He 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.[40] In 2006, the
International Astronomical Union (IAU) confirmed this assessment
by changing Pluto to the dwarf planet classification.
Tyson recounted the heated online debate on the Cambridge
Conference Network (CCNet), a "widely read, UK-based Internet
chat group", following Benny Peiser's renewed call for
reclassification of Pluto's status.[41] Peiser's entry, in which
he posted articles from the AP and The Boston Globe, spawned
from The New York Times's article entitled "Pluto's Not a
Planet? Only in New York".[42][43]
Tyson has been vice president, president, and chairman of the
board of the Planetary Society. He was also the host of the PBS
program Nova ScienceNow until 2011.[44] He attended and was a
speaker at the Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and
Survival symposium in November 2006. In 2007, Tyson was chosen
to be a regular on The History Channel's popular series The
Universe.[citation needed]
In May 2009, Tyson launched a one-hour radio talk show called
StarTalk, which he co-hosted with comedienne Lynne Koplitz. The
show was syndicated on Sunday afternoons on KTLK AM in Los
Angeles and WHFS in Washington DC. The show lasted for thirteen
weeks, but was resurrected in December 2010 and then, co-hosted
with comedians Chuck Nice and Leighann Lord instead of Koplitz.
Guests range from colleagues in science to celebrities such as
Gza, Wil Wheaton, Sarah Silverman, and Bill Maher. The show is
available via the Internet through a live stream or in the form
of a podcast.[45]
In April 2011, Tyson was the keynote speaker at the 93rd
International Convention of the Phi Theta Kappa International
Honor Society of the Two-year School. He and James Randi
delivered a lecture entitled Skepticism, which related directly
with the convention's theme of The Democratization of
Information: Power, Peril, and Promise.[46]
In 2012, Tyson announced that he would appear in a YouTube
series based on his radio show StarTalk. A premiere date for the
show has not been announced, but it will be distributed on the
Nerdist YouTube Channel.[47] On February 28, 2014, Tyson was a
celebrity guest at the White House Student Film Festival.[48] In
2014, he revived Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
television series on both FOX and National Geographic. Thirteen
episodes were aired in the first season, and rumors spread
constantly on whether there will be a second season. Degrasse
Tyson has already stated that if a second season is to be
produced that he would pass the honor of host onto someone else
in the science world.[49][50] On April 20th, 2015 he began
hosting a late-night talk show entitled Star Talk on National
Geographic Channel, where Degrasse Tyson interviews pop culture
celebrities and asks them about their life experiences with
science. [51]
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