Are you familiar with Neil deGrasse Tyson? He's an American astrophysicist, science communicator and author. I think he's a genius!
Yes I have seen him on shows before. He hosts Cosmos correct?
That's the guy! He was born and raised in New York City and developed a love for astronomy after visiting the local planetarium at age nine!
That is a really cute story. Do you know where he studied?
After graduating high school, he earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard, then earned a masters at University of Texas. He earned his doctorate at Columbia! That's pretty impressive!
Wow I did not know that he went to Harvard. His education background really is impressive.
and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. 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 later published in his books "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, 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.
Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin,