Bill Nye comes with an estimated net worth of $6.5 million. Bill Nye is an American scientist, science teacher, television host, writer, and comic with an estimated net worth of $6.5 million. He’s 6’1 and weighs 175 pounds. His mom was so special at math and science that she was recruited to be a codebreaker during the second world war. His dad became a sundial enthusiast after being locked away in a Japanese war camp for four years without electricity. Nye attended Washington’s esteemed Sidwell Friends School.
Upon commencement, Nye moved to Seattle, Washington to start a vocation with The Boeing Company. While working at Boeing, Nye developed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor which is still used around the Boeing 747airliner.
Nye started working the comedy circuit during the nighttime, doing standup at various places. That is when Nye was nicknamed “The Science Guy”. Nye quit his day job to compose and perform comedy in the showAlmost Live. The show geared toward teaching science to teens. His PBS program remained on air until June 20, 1998. Within the period of five years, Nye’s plan won 18 Emmy Awards.
When Nye is not being a television star, he continues to work in the science area. Nye helped develop the sundials which were used in the Mars Exploration Rover missions. This society is among the greatest space-interest groups on the planet. Nye in addition has written five science novels for kids.
Cornell University (1977), Sidwell Friends School (1973)
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Blair Tindall (m. 2006–2006)
Children
Charity Nye
Parents
Edwin D. "Ned" Nye, Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye
Siblings
Edward Darby Nye Jr., Susan Nye
Nicknames
William Sanford Nye , Bill Nye the Science Guy , The Science Guy , William Sanford "Bill" Nye
Awards
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s or Pre-School Children’s Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing For A Children's Series, Shorty Award for Best in Science, Washington Award, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series
Nominations
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Photography, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Direction, 20. Motion, 19. Science of Music, 18. Patterns
Movies
Rocketboy
TV Shows
Dancing with the Stars, Bill Nye the Science Guy, The Eyes of Nye, 100 Greatest Discoveries, Almost Live!, BattleBots, Back to the Future, Bill Nye Saves the World, Living with Ed, Stuff Happens, Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Trademark
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Always appears with bow-tie and lab coat
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Quote
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[on how he makes the average person understand science] You have to have learning objectives - things you want to get across. You want to make a point: Humans and dinosaurs did not live concurrently. If you get the adjacent carbon dating of volcanic soil, hat's cool. But what I want you to get is that ancient dinosaurs and humans did not live at the same time. The rest is gravy.
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Science rules!
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Our country is the only country in the world that has some people that don't believe in evolution. America is still the leader in scientific advancement, and yet we have adults who want to ignore the evidence of millions and millions of years to believe something much more complicated and complex with zero proof. It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions. I think in 30-40 years this won't even be an issue, but right now it's a major concern for a country that has a significant amount of adults raising children to ignore the facts and the evidence surrounding them about our universe, our creation and our well-being.
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[advice to young scientists] Try things then clean up after yourself. Then try some more things and clean that up too.
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Fact
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His maternal grandmother, Lucy Marie Berta Briot, was French. His other ancestry includes English, Welsh, and Irish.
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One of his "Almost Live" co-stars in Seattle was Bob Nelson, screenwriter of "Nebraska".
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One of his characters on the Seattle-based sketch show, "Almost Live", was a humorless caped superhero, Speed Walker.
Announced he was engaged to be married to Blair Tindall on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) in December 2005. The "marriage" lasted less than a month before it was either annulled or deemed invalid (sources disagree on the detail). In November 2007, Nye filed for a restraining order against "ex-fiance" Tindall, saying that he wondered if she might have poured solvent on his garden. The restraining order was later dismissed.
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Enjoys 30s/40s style swing dancing and attended dances at the most recent Camp Hollywood.
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Premiered his Science Guy character on the Seattle sketch comedy show Almost Live! (1984).
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An honored as Rhodes Class of '56 Visiting Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He studied under Carl Sagan.
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His first childhood memory is throwing a rubber band-powered airplane, the Sky Streak, and figuring out how to make it turn left so he could stay in one place and make the plane come back to him.
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He designed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor which is used in Boeing 747s.
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Self proclaimed geek in high school. He wore a tie everyday, even when that aspect of the dress code was phased out. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC.
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His father, Edwin D. "Ned" Nye, a quartermaster in the military during World War II, spent nearly four years as a prisoner of war mostly in China in a Japanese P.O.W camp. He later moved to Washington, DC where he discovered dozens of sundials. He photographed them and wrote an unusual book, "Sundials of Maryland and Virginia." Thus resulted a little family business selling Ned Nye's "Sandial®," a sundial suitable for the beaches of the Atlantic seaboard.
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Started his career after he won a Steve Martin lookalike contest.
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Worked as an engineer at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, and appeared in at least 3 training films, some of which are still popular among the workers there.
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Schools Attended: Lafayette Elementary School and Sidwell Friends School both in Washington, DC. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.