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Brian Cox was born on 3 March 1968 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Sunshine (2007), The Last Star and Absolutely Anything (2015). He has been married to Gia Milinovich since 2003. They have one child.- Editorial Department
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.
Born and raised in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, he completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University in 1980. After receiving a master's degree in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, he earned his master's (1989) and doctorate (1991) in astrophysics at Columbia University. For the next three years, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994 he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210-million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000.
From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the "Universe" column for Natural History magazine, some of which were published in his book Death by Black Hole (2007). During the same period, he wrote a monthly column in Star Date magazine, answering questions about the universe under the pen name "Merlin". Material from the column appeared in his books Merlin's Tour of the Universe (1998) and Just Visiting This Planet (1998). Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry, and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year.
In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan's 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
As a science communicator, Tyson regularly appears on television, radio, and various other media outlets.- Svante Erik Pääbo, is a Swedish geneticist specializing in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. He is the founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, since 1997. He is also a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Svante Pääbo grew up in the Stockholm suburb Bagarmossen with his mother, the Estonian chemist Karin Pääbo. His father, who was married with a family, came visiting on Saturdays, was the biochemist Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982. In 2008 Svante Pääbo married the American primatologist and geneticist Linda Vigilant. Together they have two children.
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Niobe Thompson is known for The Nature of Things (1960), Carbon - The Unauthorised Biography (2022) and The Time We Have Left (2021).- Writer
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Jared Diamond was born on 10 September 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer, known for Mars (2016), Earth 2100 (2009) and Spaceship Earth (2016).- Additional Crew
Spencer Wells was born on 6 April 1969 in Georgia, USA. He is known for Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007), The Hadza: Last of the First (2014) and Nova (1974). He has been married to Pamela Caragol since 2005. He was previously married to Trendell Thompson.- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was born on 25 January 1922 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He died on 31 August 2018 in Belluno, Veneto, Italy.
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Chris Stringer is known for Neanderthal (2000), The Incredible Human Journey (2009) and Secrets of the Dead (2000).