Since 2009, Tyson has hosted the weekly podcast StarTalk. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year. aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. Material from the column appeared in his books Merlin's Tour of the Universe (1998) and Just Visiting This Planet (1998). During the same period, he wrote a monthly column in StarDate magazine, answering questions about the universe under the pen name 'Merlin'. 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.įrom 1995 to 2005, 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 (2007) and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017). Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University.

Neil deGrasse Tyson ( US: / d ə ˈ ɡ r æ s/ or UK: / d ə ˈ ɡ r ɑː s/ born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.

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