Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, planetary, author and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Space and Earth Center in New York. 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 since 2003. Tyson studied at Harvard University, University of Texas. at Austin and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was associate in postdoctoral research at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a scientist and the Princeton Faculty as a guest researcher and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversee its $ 210 million reconstruction project, completed in 2000.
Astrophysicist who hosted NOVA ScienceNow, a PBS educational science program from 2006 to 2011, in an attempt to bring science to the general public. He was a key figure in the denial of Pluto's status as a planet. He is the host of the popular weekly radio show Star Talk and the 2014 science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
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