Bill Nye Facts
Bill Nye Facts
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| Nye attended Lafayette Elementary and Alice Deal Junior High before he was accepted to the private school Sidwell Friends School on a scholarship until his graduation in 1973. |
| He attended Cornell University and graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. |
| He returned as a professor to guest lecture in human ecology classes and introductory level astronomy at Cornell. |
| Nye began his career in Seattle and mostly starred in training films. |
| While in Seattle, he developed the hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor and later worked as a consultant with aeronautics. |
| He applied to NASA repeatedly but was rejected. |
| He began his entertainment career on a local TV show in Seattle called Almost Live! which staged scientific demonstrations. |
| He then appeared in Back to the Future: The Animated Series and would demonstrate science while it was explained by Christopher Lloyd. |
| The popularity of the show led to him getting his own show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, which aired from 1993 to 1998 but is still used in classrooms today. |
| Nye has also written many books as The Science Guy. |
| On top of hosting his TV show, he was also a writer and producer for the show. |
| In 1998, appeared in Disney's 1998 TV movie The Principal Takes a Holiday as a science teacher. |
| He hosted an eight-part series for Discovery Channel called Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye. |
| Nye created a 13 episode series about science called The Eyes of Nye that aired in 2005. |
| He has also appeared many times on the crime series Numb3ers as an engineering faculty member. |
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