Book Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the American astrophysicist, author and science communicator who has made the cosmos accessible to millions. After studies at Harvard, Columbia and UT Austin, he did postdoctoral research at Princeton before joining New York's Hayden Planetarium in 1994. He has directed the planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space since 1996, overseeing its rebuild and founding the museum's Department of Astrophysics in 1997. For a decade he wrote the "Universe" column for Natural History magazine, material that fed the books Death by Black Hole (2007) and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017); other books include The Pluto Files (2009), Space Chronicles (2012), Welcome to the Universe (2016) and Accessory to War (2018). He hosted PBS's NOVA ScienceNow from 2006 to 2011 and launched the StarTalk podcast in 2009, which became a National Geographic series in 2015. He also served on federal commissions on aerospace and space exploration. His honors include the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Hubbard Medal, the Stephen Hawking Medal For Science Communication and the NAS Public Welfare Medal. On stage he is funny, vivid and endlessly curious.