Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson born October 5 1958 is an American astrophysicist and science communicator He is currently the Frederick P Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show The Colbert Report Real Time with Bill Maher and Jeopardy It was announced on August 5 2011 that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagans Cosmos A Personal Voyage television series Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil deGrasse Tyson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia