{"id":12443,"date":"2021-11-27T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T11:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/?page_id=12443"},"modified":"2021-12-05T07:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T07:09:16","slug":"degrasee-tyson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/degrasee-tyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrasee Tyson"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"12443\" class=\"elementor elementor-12443\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-54db4d84 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"54db4d84\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f1a6486\" data-id=\"f1a6486\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-678df492 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"678df492\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"208\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/300px-Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_in_June_2017_cropped-208x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/300px-Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_in_June_2017_cropped-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/300px-Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_in_June_2017_cropped.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-649343d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"649343d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4930221\" data-id=\"4930221\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d20e990 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d20e990\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"ult-animation  ult-animate-viewport  ult-no-mobile \" data-animate=\"slideInUp\" data-animation-delay=\"0\" data-animation-duration=\"1\" data-animation-iteration=\"1\" data-opacity_start_effect=\"80\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element animated slideInUp\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h3>Getting to know Degrasee Tyson<\/h3><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element animated slideInUp\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h4>Early Years and Studies<\/h4><p>Of Puerto Rican and African American descent, and born in Manhattan, New York in 1958,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefamouspeople.com\/astronomers.php\">Neil Degrasse Tyson<\/a>\u00a0studies and lectures in the fields of Physical Cosmology and Astrophysics. He was born into a family of academics as his mother Sunchita Maria worked for the U.S. Department of Health as a gerontologist and his father Cyril was a sociologist who at one stage worked for the Mayor of New York. He went through the public-school system in the Bronx.<\/p><h4>Later Studies<\/h4><p>He gained his A.B. at Harvard College, his M.A at the University of Texas at Austin and his M. Phil and Ph D at Columbia University. In 1991, his thesis was produced on A Study of the Abundance Distributions Along the Minor Axis of the Galactic Bulge.<\/p><h4>Influences<\/h4><p>Throughout his career he has been influenced by many leading scientists. These include Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman.<\/p><h4>Awards<\/h4><p>He has received several awards for the work he has carried out including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, The Klopsteg Memorial Award, and the Public Welfare Medal.<\/p><h4>Working Life<\/h4><p>Tyson has had a variety of jobs starting in 1994 at the Hayden Planetarium while still at Princeton, and within 2 years was Director. As well as overseeing the reconstruction of the planetarium he was writing magazine articles for Natural History magazine. President G.W. Bush selected Tyson to sit on the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry and later the Presidents Commission on the Implementation of the U.S. Space Exploration Policy. It was for this work he was honoured by NASA. By 2004 he and Donald Goldsmith wrote \u201c14 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution\u201d<\/p><h4>More Recent Activities<\/h4><p>He spoke against the views of many prominent scientists and insisted Pluto was not the 9 th planet, and has appeared on numerous T.V. shows discussing this viewpoint. His current project is the production of a video game called Space Oddity which will be partly educational<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-203b3392 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"203b3392\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read More<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting to know Degrasee Tyson Early Years and Studies Of Puerto Rican and African American descent, and born in Manhattan, New York in 1958,\u00a0Neil Degrasse Tyson\u00a0studies and lectures in the fields of Physical Cosmology and Astrophysics. He was born into a family of academics as his mother Sunchita Maria worked for the U.S. Department of Health as a gerontologist and his father Cyril was a sociologist who at one stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12783,"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12443\/revisions\/12783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poobservatory.org\/vtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}