Neil deGrasse Tyson






Neil deGrasse Tyson

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October 05, 1958

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Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia.

Tyson's professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile.

In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was pu...more




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Death by Black Hole: And Other... Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 4.03 — 536 ratings — published 2007
7 editions
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and... The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 3.70 — 250 ratings — published 2008
6 editions
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Year... Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
avg rating 3.94 — 64 ratings — published 2004
3 editions
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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adve... The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 2000
2 editions
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Merlin's Tour of the Universe Merlin's Tour of the Universe
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 1989
6 editions
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Universe Down to Earth Universe Down to Earth
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 3.00 — 6 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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My Favorite Universe : 2 DVD S... My Favorite Universe : 2 DVD Set - 12 Lectures with Booklet
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2003
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Death by Black Hole: And Other... Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
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One Universe: At Home in the C... One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos
by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Liu
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2000
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Just Visiting This Planet Just Visiting This Planet
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1998
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"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us."
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"The most I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."
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"After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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