Dr. Tyson was
born in
1958. He was raised
in New York
City and
became interested in astronomy when he was 9 years old during a visit to the
Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
He attended public schools, including the
Bronx High
School of Science,
and then went on to graduate from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree
in physics,
University of Texas at Austin with a master’s degree in astronomy,
and Columbia University with both
master’s and doctorate degrees in astrophysics.
Dr. Tyson’s research
as an astrophysicist and cosmologist includes the formation and evolution of stars.
He is now the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City that once
inspired him! He
also has become a very successful science communicator, exciting the public
about science through his work at the planetarium and through television,
books, and public speaking.
Books:
“The Sky Is Not The Limit: Adventures of a urban astrophysicist”
(2000)
“Origins: Fourteen billion years of
cosmic evolution” (2004)
“Death by Black Hole” (2007)
“The Pluto Files: The rise and fall of America’s favorite planet”(2009)
“Space Chronicles” (2012)
TV series:
Nova: ScienceNow
StarTalk
Cosmos: A spacetime odyssey
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