Bill Nye the science guy is a scientist who teaches kids about science through videos. He is a scientist, engineer, comedian, author and inventor. His full name is William Sanford Nye. He was born in Washington, D.C. He was born on November 27, 1955. His height is 6 feet 1 inch. His parents are Jacqueline and Edwin Darby Nye. His siblings are Susan Nye and Edwin Nye. His mother was a code breaker during World War II. His father was held at a Japanese prisoner camp. His earliest childhood memory was throwing a paper airplane powered by a rubber band. He tried to figure out how to make it turn. He also likes to ride his bicycle. He also liked to take apart the bike and see how it worked.
He went to New York’s Cornell University home of the Big Red. He was Carl Sagan’s student. He graduated in 1977 from Cornell. The other schools he went to was Lafayette Elementary, Sidwell Friends School, and Alice Deal Junior High Vikings. He then moved to Seattle, Washington. There he worked as a mechanical engineer for a company called the Boeing Aircraft Company. The next job he ha...
Tennessee and then following his boyhood dream of becoming a baseball player. He started out his
He served in WWII as a flight radar observer and navigator. After serving in the army he went to school at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He went there on the G. I. Bill. After graduating from Vanderbilt with a M. A. in English, he started to teach. He taught first at the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. His time there was cut short because he was recalled to duty in Korea as flight training instructor. But as soon as he was discharged from the Corps he returned to teach again at Rice University. He taught at Rice until 1954 when he left to go to Europe on the Sewanee Review fellowship. After returning to the U.S. he joined the English Department at the University of Florida. He did not stay there long because he resigned after a dispute after he h...
Bill Cosby was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1937 as William Henry Cosby, Jr. In the 1950’s, Bill Cosby dropped out of high school to join the Navy. He did attend college on a football scholarship at Temple University years later. He also completed his doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts during the 1970‘s.
support the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 a
Bill Nye is a key figure in the scientific community. His outreach to children and his involvement with educating the public and furthering scientific inquiry and research make him one of the most influential scientists of the 21st century. Bill Nye grew up in Washington DC, after attending Sidwell Friends School, a private school in Washington DC, Bill went to Cornell University and majored in Mathematical Engineering. Bill started his entertainment career with a show called Almost Live, a comedy show where a sketch called “Bill Nye The Science Guy” had Bill do small experiments on the show. Bill then became the main entertainer of the PBS show “Bill Nye The Science Guy”, a show aimed at preteens. The show ran from 1993 to 1999 and aired
He stated to study literature. He took creative-writing course at Chico State College on 1958.
More than any other rapper, Dr. Dre was responsible for moving away from the avant-noise and political stance of Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions, as well as the party vibes of old school rap. Instead, Dre pioneered gangsta rap and his own variation of the sound, G-Funk. BDP's early albums were hardcore but cautionary tales of the criminal mind, but Dre's records with N.W.A. celebrated the hedonistic, amoralistic side of gang life. Dre was never much of a rapper -- his rhymes were simple and his delivery was slow and clumsy -- but as a producer, he was extraordinary.
He started using comedy and humor to make friends and entertain his classmates. Immediately after high school, he began attending college. He first studied political science at Claremont Men’s College where he started taking improvisation courses. When he discovered his love of comedy and improvisation, he switched colleges to attend the College of Marin to study acting. It was there that he also received a Scholarship to Juilliard in New York City (Robin Williams American Actor and Comedian). Using the knowledge he gained at college, he left to pursue a career in acting.
Born and raised in New York City, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson discovered his love for the stars at an early age. After studying at Harvard University, he earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1991. Tyson went to work for the Hayden Planetarium in 1996 and still serves as its director. He hosted the NOVA ScienceNow series from 2006 to 2011. Tyson remains a popular TV science expert today and has amassed over 3.6 million followers
On October 28, 1955 William H. Gates III (nicknamed "trey") was born in Seattle. His father was a lawyer (William H. Gates II) and his mother was a schoolteacher. He also had two older sisters who were in high school when Bill was born. Bill attended a public elementary school before he moved to a private school in North Seattle named Lakeside. Lakeside's strong academics enabled Bill to actively get involved with computers (which were the love of his life next to baseball) and use his superior intellect. This was the beginning of a long and successful career in computers. Bill combined his intellect and visions of technology along with his active participation in may charities to make our world a better place.
Later in his life, Feynman attended college as a physics major. He finished his first four years in 1939 at MIT, and then moved on to Princeton for graduate school. While at Princeton, Feynman proposed to Arline. The two planned to be married after hecom...
Newman School which was a Catholic Preparatory in New Jersey. Once he graduated in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey and attend Princeton University. His reasoning to attending
Education and career choices, he attended high school in Massachusetts, after high school became a merchant marine at the end of World War II. Worked on a Haganah ship smuggling Jewish refugees from Romania, end up getting captured and held at camp Cyprus later escaped, returned to the United States. When he returned to the United States he enrolled in College at the University of Chicago, one year later graduating with his Bachelors in Psychology