The most interesting and acclaimed astrophysicist that popularizes science.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the fifth director of the Hayden Planetarium. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
Tyson was science editor and narrator for the Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey series. His books include 2017's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and 2019's Letters from an Astrophysicist. Aside from his many books, Tyson was a well-known science popularizer on television and radio. From 1995 to 2005 he wrote essays for Natural History magazine, some of which were collected in Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries, and in 2000 he wrote an autobiography, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist.
Tyson has received twenty-one honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by NASA to a citizen. In addition, the International Astronomical Union gave his name to the asteroid “13123 Tyson”. He received a BA in Physics from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an MA in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics (1991) from Columbia University, New York.
