Neil deGrasse Tyson was born on 5 October 5 1958, in Manhattan, New York City USA, and is a science communicator, cosmologist and astrophysicist. Neil is best known, and became easily recognised among audiences, after the radio and television series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” (1980), and hosting such popular TV shows as “Nova Science Now” (2006 – 2011), “Star Trek” (2009 – present), and “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” (2014). At present he works as a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in the department of astrophysics, and the head of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space.
So just how rich is Neil deGrasse Tyson, as of early 2018? Sources have estimated that the overall amount of Neil’s net worth is over $2 million, accumulated from his work in the area of astrophysics, including related TV and radio shows.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Net Worth $2 Million
Neil was interested in astronomy from early childhood, including doing well at the Bronx High School, even becoming the editor of the Physical Science Journal, and at fifteen years of age he was giving lectures on astronomy in the astronomy community. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1980, with a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, and subsequently with both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate of Philosophy in astrophysics from Columbia University. Tyson targeted his research on the specific topics of stellar formation, bulges, galactic astronomy, stellar evolution and cosmology. He has worked with authority at various institutions, including the Hayden Planetarium, the American Museum of Natural History, Princeton University and the University of Maryland, all contributing to his net worth.
Neil is constantly advocating spreading and increasing NASA operations, and systematically appears in the mass-media as a science communicator. He has published a number of books and scientific publications, and during his career he has received many awards and honours, among which the most important are the Medal of Excellence, Columbia University, New York City (2001), NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2004), Science Writing Award (2005), Klopsteg Memorial Award winner (2007), Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award from the Space Foundation (2009), Isaac Asimov Award from the American Humanist Association (2009) and Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host (2014). Neil has been valued and honoured in every field of his work, no matter whether it is pure science or an entertaining program on TV – he spreads his spirituality, charisma and knowledge everywhere.
In his personal life, in 1988 Neil deGrasse Tyson married Alice Young, who he met while studying at the University of Texas: they have two daughters. Neil de Grasse Tyson is always described as a spiritual person, and he has spread his views about spirituality of science in his works. He has also conveyed messages about racial and social justice during his interviews, as he is well known and the most visible, as well as a black- skinned person. He usually emphasizes the importance of being empathetic, and is also an activist of the PETA organization, which fights for animal rights.
Astronomer, Writer, Astrophysicist, Author, Actor, Television Editor, Science communicator, Headmaster of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space
Education
Bronx High School of Science, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, Columbia University
Medal of Excellence (Columbia University, New York City, 2001), NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2004), Science Writing Award (2005), Klopsteg Memorial Award winner (2007), Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award (Space Foundation, 2009), Isaac Asimov Award (American Humanist Association, 20...
Albums
Miles from Tomorrowland (2017), Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow (2017, video game), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Lazer Team (2015), Gravity Falls (2014), Stargate: Atlantis (2008)
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator/Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series/Outstanding Informational Series Or Special, Shorty Award for Best Podcast
Movies
Nova ScienceNow (2005 – 2011), Star Trek (2009 – present), Miles from Tomorrowland (2017), Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow (2017, video game), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Lazer Team (2015), Gravity Falls (2014), Stargate: Atlantis (2008)
TV Shows
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014), Nova Science Now: How Smart Are Animals? (2011), Nova (TV Series documentary, 2003-2010), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015-2018), The Jim Gaffigan Show (2016)
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My great fear is that we've in fact been visited by intelligent aliens, but they chose not to make contact, on the conclusion that there's no sign of intelligent life on earth. We were sending signals out before we were doing it on purpose. Our early TV shows like 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners' and that sort of thing - 'Howdy Doody'. These are our cultural emissaries.
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[on if religion and science have an inherent conflict between them] - Most religious people in America, fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And has been that way ever since the beginning. And by the way, there's no tradition of scientists knocking down the door, the Sunday school door, telling the preacher what to teach. There's no tradition of scientists picketing outside of churches nor should there be some [emergent] tradition of religious fundamentalists trying to change the curriculum in the science classroom. There's been a happy coexistence for centuries.
And for that to change now would be unfortunate. Because I've seen this happen in other nations and the other states where the consequences are that you just basically recede back to the cave because that's where you land when you undermine the scientific and technological innovations that come about when you're a properly trained scientist or technologist. Consider also that in America, 40% of American scientists are religious. So this notion that there's some... that if you're a scientist, you're an atheist or if you're religious, you're not a scientist, that's just empirically false. It's an empirically false statement.
And what I mean by religious is that you can pose the question in a way that is unambiguous. You don't ask, well, do you go to church every Sunday 'cause plenty of people go to church, like, just for the pie, you know, or the social scene after the service. You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a conflict but many people in this country coexist in both worlds.
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This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. ... Instead, why not tally all those things whose design ... reflect[s] the absence of intelligence?
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Another practice that isn't science is embracing ignorance. Yet it's fundamental to the philosophy of intelligent design: I don't know what this is ... So it must be the product of a higher intelligence.
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[T]he persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.
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To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.
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Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
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[Regarding Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)] - They all knew the mother-ship was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.
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So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
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I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.
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We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet. ... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.
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Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
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[A]s they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion. ... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
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[on what his favorite sci-fi movies are] - Deep Impact (1998) and Contact (1997). They spent a lot of time getting the science right. I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
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Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.
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If that's how you wanna invoke your evidence for god, then god is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance, thats getting smaller, smaller and smaller as time goes on.
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When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.
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One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind "through the universe"? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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Science is something to be proud of, it allows us to understand the world in spite of ourselves.
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Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.
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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
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Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
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The more your ideas are untestable, either in principle or in practice, the less useful they are to the advance of science.
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Has two children: a son named Travis, and a daughter named Miranda.
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First African American director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, in New York City. Tyson is also a researcher, a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, and a general-interest science columnist. Author of books for nonspecialists on space and the universe (listed under Other Works).
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At his high school's 20-year reunion in 1996, Tyson was voted the graduate with the "coolest job."
TV Series documentary executive editor - 67 episodes
Nova Science Now: How Smart Are Animals?
2011
TV Series documentary executive editor - 1 episode
Nova
2003-2010
TV Series documentary executive editor - 6 episodes
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
StarTalk
2015-2016
TV Series executive producer - 20 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Boundary
2016
Short completed
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Simpsons
2017
TV Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Jim Gaffigan Show
2016
TV Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson
BoJack Horseman
2016
TV Series
Planetarium Narrator
Ice Age: Collision Course
2016
Neil deBuck Weasel (voice)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Zoolander 2
2016
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Family Guy
2016
TV Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2015
TV Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lazer Team
2015
Neil deGrasse Tyson
StarTalk
2015
TV Series
Host / Himself
Gravity Falls
2014
TV Series
Smart Waddles
Dark Universe
2013
Short
Narrator
The Big Bang Theory
2010
TV Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stargate: Atlantis
2008
TV Series
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nova ScienceNow
2005-2008
TV Series documentary 7 episodes
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary executive science editor - 1 episode
102 Minutes That Changed America
2008
TV Movie documentary footage
Seeing in the Dark
2007
TV Movie documentary advisor
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
David
2014
Short very special thanks
The Astronomer
2012
Documentary short inspirational thanks
All Things Shining
2012
inspirational thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
What's a Podcast? A Documentary Film
2016
Documentary post-production
Himself
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
2017
Documentary
Himself
StarTalk
2015-2017
TV Series
Himself / Host / Himself - Host
Garbage Time with Katie Nolan
2017
TV Series
Himself
The Mars Generation
2017
Documentary
Himself
Match Game
2017
TV Series
Himself - Celebrity Panelist
Jeopardy!
2008-2017
TV Series
Himself - Video Clue Presenter / Himself - Clue Giver
Jay Leno's Garage
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Astrophysicist
The Kennedy Show
2016
TV Series
Himself - Physicist
CBS This Morning
2014-2016
TV Series
Himself - Author / Himself - Astrophysicist / Himself / ...
Food Evolution
2016
Documentary
Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest
Conan
2015-2016
TV Series
Himself - Astrophysicist / Himself - Guest / Himself - Star Talk Host
Regular Show in Space
2016
TV Series
Himself
The View
2015-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Astrophysicist
Scrat: Spaced Out
2016
Video short
Himself - Narrator
Future-Worm!
2016
TV Series
Himself
Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf
2016
TV Series
Himself
Órbita Laika: La Nueva Generación
2016
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
2016 Creative Arts Emmys
2016
TV Movie
Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance / Outstanding Short Form Animated Program / Outstanding Animated Program and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
Chelsea
2016
TV Series
Himself
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2016
TV Series
Himself
Tavis Smiley
2007-2016
TV Series
Himself
Today
2015-2016
TV Series
Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher
2011-2016
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself - Author, 'Space Chronicles' / Himself - Panelist / ...
Fight for Space
2016
Documentary
Himself - Astrophysicist
Ro's Life
2016
TV Series short
Himself
Zoolander No. 2: Believe in Your Selfie
2016
Video short
Himself
Zoolander No. 2: Go Big or Go Rome
2016
Video documentary short
Himself
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
2015-2016
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Panelist
For the Love of Spock
2016
Documentary
Himself
CinemaSins
2016
TV Series
Himself
MythBusters
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself
100 Things to Do Before High School
2016
TV Series
Himself
Ares: Our Greatest Adventure
2016
Video short
Himself
Sports Jeopardy!
2015
TV Series
Himself - Clue Giver
Climate Change in the Pacific
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary
Narrator
2015 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2015
TV Movie
Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Children's Program / Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program / Outstanding Animated Program / ...
Charlie Rose
1998-2015
TV Series
Himself - Guest
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
TV Series
Himself
Larry King Now
2013-2015
TV Series
Himself - Guest
On the Money
2015
TV Series
Himself - Astrophysicist
The Daily Show
2007-2015
TV Series
Himself
Hubble's Cosmic Journey
2015
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Narrator (voice)
60 Minutes
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - Astrophysicist (segment "Starstruck")
Hot Sugar's Cold World
2015
Documentary
Himself
Nerdy Nummies
2015
TV Series
Himself
Painting the Way to the Moon
2015
Documentary
Himself
Painting the Way to the Moon
2014
TV Movie documentary
The Colbert Report
2005-2014
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Guest / Herself - Guest / ...
Saving My Tomorrow
2014
TV Series documentary
Narrator / Himself
HuffPost Live Conversations
2014
TV Series
Himself
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - The Voyage Continues
2014
Video documentary short
Himself - Host
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Host
This Is Not a Ball
2014
Documentary
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
TV Series
Himself
Everything Wrong with...
2014
TV Series
Himself
Good Morning Today
2014
TV Series
Himself
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
TV Series
Himself
Fox and Friends
2014
TV Series
Himself
Last Call with Carson Daly
2014
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Inside Edition
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself
Good Day L.A.
2014
TV Series
Himself
Moyers & Company
2014
TV Series
Himself
Overheard
2014
TV Series
Himself - interviewee
Chris Hardwick's All-Star Celebrity Bowling
2013
TV Series
Himself
Stuff You Should Know
2013
TV Series
Himself
Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest
P.O.V.
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
John Carter: 100 Years in the Making
2012
Video documentary short
Hayden Planetarium Director
Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory
2012
Documentary
Himself
On the Verge
2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Rock Center with Brian Williams
2012
TV Series
Himself
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host / Host - Presenter
The Mo'Nique Show
2011
TV Series
Himself
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009-2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself
Nova ScienceNow
2005-2011
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host / Himself
The Reality of Me (TROM)
2011
Documentary
Himself
Nova Science Now: How Smart Are Animals?
2011
TV Series documentary
Himself - Host
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
2010
TV Series
Himself
Nova
2004-2010
TV Series documentary
Himself / Narrator / Host / ...
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - Secret Doors and Scientists, Behind-the-Scenes of The American Museum of Natural History
2009
Video short
Himself
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
2009
TV Series
Himself - Guest Expert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2009
TV Series
Himself
400 Years of the Telescope
2009
Documentary
Narrator (voice)
Einstein
2008/II
TV Movie documentary
Himself
D.L. Hughley Breaks the News
2008
TV Series
Himself
Horizon
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself - American Museum of Natural History
How Life Began
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Universe
2007-2008
TV Series documentary
Himself - American Museum of Natural History / Himself - Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History / Himself - American Museum of Natural HJistory
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2007
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Last Days on Earth
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Astrophysicist: American Museum of Natural History (as Neil deGrasse Tyson Ph.D.)
My Favorite Universe
2003
TV Series documentary
Window to the Universe
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Closer to Truth
2000
TV Series
Himself
BreakThrough: The Changing Face of Science in America
1996
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Atheist Delusion
2016
Video documentary
Himself
An Open Letter to Neil DeGrasse Tyson Regarding the Flat Earth
2016
Video short
Himself
Ro's Life
2016
TV Series short
Himself
The Drunken Peasants
2015
TV Series
Himself
60 Minutes
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself - Astrophysicist (segment "Starstruck")
Design(er)
2014
TV Series
Himself
The Comfort Zone
2013-2014
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Astrophysicist
Europa Report
2013
Himself (uncredited)
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2014
Critics' Choice TV Award
Critics Choice Television Awards
Best Reality Host
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2016
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
StarTalk (2015)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Narrator
Hubble's Cosmic Journey (2015)
2015
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series or Special
StarTalk (2015)
2014
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Known for movies
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) as Miscellaneous Crew
The Universe (2007-2008) as Himself - American Museum of Natural History / Him
Nova ScienceNow (2005-2011) as Editorial Department
$2 Million
