Happy Birthday to Bill Nye “The Science Guy” who turns 70 today. Nye, a science educator, comedian, and author is best known as the host of the PBS children’s science show, Bill Nye the Science Guy . Nye abandoned a career in mechanical engineering to pursue sketch comedy, writing and performing for the local sketch television show Almost Live! , where he regularly conducted wacky scientific experiments, setting the stage for his famous television persona. WATCH the scientist, who always wears a bow tie, explain how he became The Science Guy… (1955)

After university studies at Cornell, the DC-born mechanical engineer, who wanted to be an astronaut, got his start at Boeing where, among other things, he starred in training films and developed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppres

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