About Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994 he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton. In 1994 he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and also lectured at Princeton. He became director of the planetarium in 1996, leading a $210 million renovation completed in 2000. Since then he has directed the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, part of the American Museum of Natural History, where he founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate there since 2003.
Awards & Honors
NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
Hubbard Medal
NAS Public Welfare Medal
Science Writing Award
Knight Innovation Award
Carl Sandburg Literary Award
Stephen Hawking Medal For Science Communication
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
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Isaac Asimov Science Award
Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
