Neil Degrasse Tyson: podcast appearances and interviews

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator born on October 5, 1958. He studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. Tyson served as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University from 1991 to 1994. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and also became a visiting research scientist and lecturer at Princeton University. He assumed the role of director of the Hayden Planetarium in 1996, overseeing its $210 million reconstruction project completed in 2000. Since then, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, which is part of the American Museum of Natural History. Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics at the museum in 1997 and has been a research associate there since 2003. He contributed monthly essays to Natural History magazine from 1995 to 2005 and wrote columns in StarDate magazine under the pseudonym