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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Tyson studied at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia before landing postdoc work at Princeton in 1991. Three years later he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist, and by 1996 he was directing it—steering a $210 million reconstruction finished in 2000. He founded the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics in 1997. For a decade starting in 1995, he wrote monthly essays for Natural History (later collected in Death by Black Hole and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry) and answered cosmic questions in StarDate under the pen name "Merlin." He served on two government space commissions and earned NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2004. Then came the screen work: NOVA ScienceNow from 2006 to 2011, the podcast StarTalk in 2009, and in 2014 the Carl Sagan torch-pass, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. The National Academy of Sciences gave him the Public Welfare Medal in 2015 for making the public care about stars again.