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Neil Degrasse Tyson Net Worth, Wiki and Biography

Sampson Gaddah
Last updated: 2021/08/13 at 4:31 PM
Sampson Gaddah Published August 13, 2021
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Many actors and actresses have enjoyed short fame and vanished in thin air but that can not be said about Tyson. He has been consistent ever since joining the entertainment industry. In this article, we shall cover Neil Degrasse Tyson Net Worth, Wiki, and Biography.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Bio

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an Actor, Tv host, author, astrophysicist, a planetary scientist. He was born on 5th October 1958. Tyson grew up as the second born of three children, into a family living in the Bronx in Manhattan.
His father, Cyril DeGrasse Tyson was a sociologist human resource commissioner for New York City mayor John Lindsay and the first Director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.
His mother, Sunchita Maria Tyson was a gerontologist for the U.S Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Sanchita was of Puerto Rican descent. Tyson’s middle name, DeGrasse, was from the maiden name of his paternal grandmother, who was born as Altima De Grasse in the British West Indies island of Nevis.

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Neil Degrasse Tyson Wiki

From kindergarten throughout high school, Tyson attended public schools in the Bronx: PS 36 Unionport, PS 81 Robert J. Christen, the Rivadel Kingsbridge Academy and The Bronx High School of Science (X445) where he was captain of the wrestling team, editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, and graduated in 1976.
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His interest in astronomy began at the age of nine after visiting the sky theater of the Hayden Planetarium. He recalled that “so strong was that imprint [of the night sky] that I’m certain that I had no choice in the matter, that in fact, the universe called me.” During high school, Tyson attended astronomy courses offered by the Hayden Planetarium, which he called “the most formative period” of his life.
He credited Dr. Mark Chartrand III, director of the planetarium at the time, as his “first intellectual role model” and his enthusiastic teaching style mixed with humor inspired Tyson to communicate the universe to others the way he did. Tyson married his wife, Alice Young in 1988 and has two children, Miranda and Travis. They named their first child Miranda, after the smallest of Uranus’ five major moons.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Career

He has starred in several popular movies and TV series such as Scooby-Doo, The Big Bang theory, Merlin, The Simpsons, Batman Vs. Superman, Zoolander, Lazer Team amongst others. He also served as a narrator and host for the documentary, Food Evolution and Cosmos: Possible Worlds and A space Time Odyssey
Some of the TV shows he hosted include Star Talk, and Nova Science Now,
From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the television show NOVA Science Now on PBS. Since 2009, Tyson has hosted the weekly podcast Star Talk. A spinoff, also called Star Talk, began airing on National Geographic in 2015. In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan’s 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the “Universe” column for Natural History magazine, some of which were later published in his books Death by Black Hole, (2007) and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry(2017). During the same period, he wrote a monthly column in StarDate magazine, answering questions about the universe under the pen name “Merlin”.
Material from the column appeared in his books Merlin’s Tour of the Universe (1998) and Just Visiting This Planet (1998). Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year.  The U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded Tyson the Public Welfare Medal in 2015 for his “extraordinary role in exciting the public about the wonders of science”.
Tyson is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, a position he has held since 1996, and he founded the American Museum of Natural History’s Department of Astrophysics in 1997
Tyson published his first book, “Merlin’s Tour of the Universe,” in 1989, and followed it up with 1994’s “Universe Down to Earth” and 1998’s “Just Visiting This Planet.” He is also the author of “One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos” (2000), “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist” (2004), “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” (2017), “Letters from an Astrophysicist” (2019), and several other books. Selling over 1 million copies, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” spent more than a year on the “New York Times” Best Seller List.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Awards

Neil has won many awards; some of which are:
  1. NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the year 2004
  2. Klopsteg Memorial Award in the year 2007
  3. Public Welfare Medal in the year 2015
  4. Critics Choice Awards for 2014 for best TV Show Host and many others.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Family

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is married to Alice Young for about 30 years. They have a daughter and a son.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Contact Details

Due to the fact that  Neil deGrasse Tyson is a television host, it is much easier to reach him. These are his contact details;

Facebook

www.facebook.cm/neildegrassetyson

Instagram

www.instagram.com/neildegrassetyson

Twitter

www.twittr.com/neiltyson

TikTok

www.tiktok.com/neildegrassetyson

Website

www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Net Worth

Neil DeGrasse Tyson has an estimated net worth of $5 million dollars. It’s easy to tell his source of income as an actor and a host. It’s never surprising that he has made so much money.

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