닐 디그래스 타이슨

소개

닐 디그래스 타이슨(영어: Neil deGrasse Tyson, 1958년 10월 5일 ~)은 미국의 천체물리학자이자, 대중 과학 운동가, 작가이다. 미국의 천문학자인 칼 세이건의 후계자로서, 다큐멘터리 《코스모스》의 2014년판의 호스트를 맡은 것으로 유명하며, 미국의 뉴욕에 위치한 헤이든 플라네타륨의 관리자로 있으며, 행성협회의 회원이다.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.