Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose 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.

Outside The Simpsons, Tyson has written his own books and also written in some research publications. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the television show NOVA ScienceNow on PBS. Since 2009, Tyson hosted the weekly podcast StarTalk, and he also hosted the spin-off talk show of the same name on National Geographic since 2015. In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan's 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.

Tyson has also been an actor in films such as Lazer Team, Zoolander 2, and Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice. He has also guest stared as himself in TV shows such as The Big Bang Theory, Stargate: Atlantis, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Family Guy.

On The Simpsons, he guest voiced as himself in "The Caper Chase".