Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. Wikipedia
Born: October 5, 1958 (age 58), Manhattan, New York City, NY
Spouse: Alice Young (m. 1988)
Education: Columbia University (1991), More
Movies and TV shows: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, StarTalk, Nova ScienceNow, 400 Years of the Telescope, The Universe.
Quotes
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.