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astrophysicist & TV host
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
"Science literacy is a vaccine gainst the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance."
"As always, keep looking up." — tagline/sign-off on the “StarTalk Radio Show” podcast
"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure [that] it's not just an opinion that you desparately want to be true."
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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He is a recipient of 21 honorary doctorates, the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, and the Distinguished Public Service Medal from NASA. Asteroid 13123 Tyson is named in his honor.
http://www.neildegrassetyson.com/
Neil deGrasse Tyson entry at Wikipedia
Neil deGrasse Tyson credits [over 250 entries since 1996] at Internet Movie Database
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Major Works
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"Universe Down To Earth" [1994]
"Just Visiting This Planet" [1998]
"One Universe: At Home In The Cosmos" [1999] ed., w/Charles Tsun-Chu Liu & Robert Irion
"Merlin's Tour of The Universe" [1999]
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"Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy At The Cutting Edge, Illustrated" [2001] Edited by Steven Soter & Neil deGrasse Tyson companion book to an American Museum of Natural History exhibit; essays by leading astronomers, including NASA scientists, profiles of astronomers such as Carl Sagan and Georges Lemaître (father of the Big Bang theory), with more than eighty full-color images and a resource section that includes a bibliography and an extensive glossary New Press 9x7¼ pb [5/2001] out of print/used |
"My Favorite Universe" [The Teaching Company 2003]
"Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution" [2004] w/Donald Goldsmith
"Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries" [2007]
"Astrophysics For People In A Hurry" [2017] #1 bestselling
"Letters From An Astrophysicist" [2019]
"Cosmic Queries" [2021]
 | "Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives On Civilization" [2022] Sunday Times UK bestseller by Neil deGrasse Tyson "Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time - war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race - in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all." Kindle Edition from Henry Holt & Co. [9/2022] for $14.99 U.K. mass pb [12/2022] for $14.50 Holt Paperbacks 8¼x5½ pb [1/2024] for $18.99 Henry Holt & Co. 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2022] for $15.32 |
Other Works
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Movies and Television
Neil deGrasse Tyson credits [over 250 entries since 1996] at Internet Movie Database
From 2006 to 2011, Tyson hosted the television show "NOVA ScienceNow" on PBS
"StarTalk Radio Show" podcast series [since 2009]
 | Tyson has hosted the weekly "StarTalk" podcast since 2009, producing almost 900 episodes; the webcast moved to the National Geographic Channel in 2015 incomplete radio/webcast series credits at Internet Movie Database Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Star Talk' podcast [] on Facebook Facebook 'Reels' videos of Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Star Talk' podcast |
"Oppenheimer: Father of The Atomic Age - with Kai Bird" [webcast Sept 2023]
Season 14, episode 54 of Neil deGrasse Tyson's “StarTalk” webcast series [since 2009]
host Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews historian Kai Bird, co-author of the "American Prometheus" 2005 biography
bare credits at IMDb •
watch 9/2023 full episode [52:19] online at YouTube
In 2014, Tyson hosted the television series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey", a successor to Carl Sagan's 1980 "Cosmos" series.
"Salvation" 26-episode TV series [2017] /tt6170874/
S1.E1 Pilot [aired Jul 12, 2017]
"Miles From Tomorrowland" animated TV series [2015-2018] /tt3098856/
Main Title Narration (voice) 20 episodes 2017–2018
"The Last Sharknado: It's About Time" TV movie [aug 2018 /tt8031422/ as Merlin
"Could You Survive The Movies?" TV Series (2018) episode [2019] /tt11696822/
S1.E6 "Alien" [aired Dec 16, 2019] co-writer, director & host Jake Roper
"Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?" TV series [2019] episode "Space Station Scooby!" [2020]
Neil deGrasse Tyson (voice)
"The Globe" movie [in production 2023] /tt13688188/ 
stars Buzz Aldrin & Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stageplays ?, Other Media
Neil deGrasse Tyson group [] on Facebook - public group with 210K+ members
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Xtwitter account [est. 1/2009] - has 14.7M followers
http://www.masterclass.com/classes/neil-degrasse-tyson-teaches-scientific-thinking-and-communication
  | "Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow" online video game [2001] a single-player interactive video game based on Matt Groening's animated TV series of the same name; published by Vivendi Universal for Windows XP & Xbox in 2001, and later for Playstation 2; online version launched by TinyCo/-Jam City in June 2017, website shut down April 2023; the story has Hypnotoad scatter the Universe to an alternative existence requiring the player to reconstruct New New York City and save the inhabitants; the 'Neil deGrasse Tyson's Head' character is voiced by himself • Based on characters created by exec producer Matt Groening; written by Cas Ruffin & Patric M. Verrone; featuring voices of Stephen Hawking {as Stephen Hawking's Head}, Bill Nye {as Bill Nye's Head}, Merrick Gumble, Dan Castellaneta, John DiMaggio, Chris Hardwick, Phil Hendrie, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Dawnn Lewis, Tress MacNeille, Katey Sagal, Wanda Sykes, George Takei {as George Takei's Head}, Lauren Tom, Frank Welker, Billy West • full credits at IMDb • game entry at Wikipedia Vivendi Universal Games video game CD-ROM for Windows [10/2001] for $350.88 Vivendi Universal Games video game CD-ROM for Xbox [10/2001] for $505.48 Square Enix video game CD-ROM for PS-2 [1/2014] for $399.99 Amazon Renewed video game CD-ROM for PS-2 [9/2020] for $483.99 watch 6/2017 official promo [1:23] online at YouTube |
Works About Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Friends & Family
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born in New York City in 1958; after getting degrees at Harvard & Columbia, he joined the Hayden Planetarium in 1994
and was promoted to director in 1996. Tyson lives in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.
wife Alice Young Tyson [] - married in 1988
daughter Miranda Tyson []
son Travis Tyson []
astrophysicist Steven Soter [b. 1943]
Resident Research Associate, Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History in New York City
entry at Wikipedia
Steven Soter credits [since 1980] at Internet Movie Database
American Museum of Natural History faculty homepage
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