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Tyson was born in Manhattan as the second of three children, into a Catholic family living in the Bronx. [4] [5] His African-American father, Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927–2016), was a sociologist and human resource commissioner for New York City mayor John Lindsay, and the first director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.
In April 2015, Filippenko forwarded an email message from UC Santa Cruz Professor Sandra Faber regarding the controversial construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea. In that message, Faber stated that "The Thirty-Meter Telescope is in trouble, attacked by a horde of native Hawaiians who are lying about the impact of the project on ...
The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
The last glint of sunlight appears on the edge of the moon just before the start of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 near Fredericksburg, Texas. It was the last total eclipse of the sun ...
She has led the OAD project AstroSense since April 2014. [4] [12] She worked on the technique after she lost her sight as an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico. [13] [8] In 2016, she gave a TED Talk in Vancouver, BC, Canada. [14] She is a member of the International Astronomical Union. [15]
Siegel was born to "a Jewish postal worker" [2] and grew up in the Bronx, where he attended Bronx High School of Science until 1996. Siegel graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. degree in physics, classics and integrated science in 2000, and went on to earn his Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from the University of Florida in 2006.
Nia Imara is an American astrophysicist, artist, and activist.Imara's scientific work deals with galactic mass, star formation, and exoplanet detection. Imara was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley [1] and was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow in the Future Faculty Leaders program at Harvard University. [2]
Jedidah C. Isler is an American astrophysicist, educator, and an active advocate for diversity in STEM.She became the first African-American woman to complete her PhD in astrophysics at Yale in 2014. [1]