Neil deGrasse Tyson was born on October 5, 1968 in Manhattan, New York City. He was later educated at the Columbia University in 1991.
He is an American astrophysicist, science communicator, and author. He spends time on talk shows such as Cosmos: A spacetime Odyssey, Startalk and more. Since 1996, he has also been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, and he has even got his own telescope. He has written quite a few books such as Death by Black Holes (2006), The Pluto Files (2009), and his newest book being Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017).
One of the things Neil is most famous for is supporting reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf.
He is married to Alice Young who has a PhD in mathematical physics, and they have two children.
Quote: “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”