Birth Name: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Date of Birth: October 5, 1958
Ethnicity: African-American, Puerto Rican
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is the son of Sunchita Maria Feliciano, a gerontologist, and Cyril deGrasse Tyson, a sociologist. His father was African-American and his mother Puerto Rican.
His middle name, “deGrasse”, originates from his paternal grandmother, Altima de Grasse, who was from the West Indies.
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