[1] Tyson received in 1962 his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and in 1967 his Ph.

In 1985 he became a distinguished member of the technical staff (a position for experienced scientists and engineers in major U. S. companies) at Bell Laboratories until 2004.

In the late 1970s he applied CCDs to astronomy, discovering the faint blue galaxies.

Using these distant galaxies he made the first maps of dark matter using weak gravitational lensing.

Tyson built the Big Throughput Camera, which was used to discover dark energy.