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[[Carl Sagan]]'s [[Spiritual Successor|direct successor]] as "Coolest Scientist in America", which is appropriate, as Sagan was Tyson's mentor, and was to a degree responsible for Tyson becoming an astrophysicist in the first place.
Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Doctor Tyson is one of the scientists (along with Brian Cox, Phil Plait, Michio Kaku, [[Stephen Hawking]] and several others) who have taken up the task, largely pioneered by Sagan, of bringing easy-to-understand science to the general public. He's the host of PBS's science series ''Nova'', has written multiple books (all easily understood by laymen) about astrophysical phenomena, and is a frequent guest on ''[[The Daily Show]]'', ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', and ''[[Jeopardy
Dr. Tyson was the primary driving force behind the [[Pluto Is Expendable|demotion of Pluto]] from "planet" status to "dwarf planet" status, based on his view that Pluto is only one of thousands of Kuiper Belt objects that have been discovered (an action he has admitted has brought him "a lot of hate mail... mostly from children").
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