Bill Nye, the Scientist, is a scientist who teaches science to children through videos. He is a scientist, engineer, actor, author and inventor. His full name is William Sanford Nye. He was born in Washington, DC. He was born on November 27, 1955. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall. His parents are Jacqueline and Edwin Darby Nye. His siblings are Susan Nye and Edwin Nye. His mother was a codebreaker during World War II. His father was held in a Japanese prison camp. His first childhood memory was of launching a paper airplane powered by a rubber band. He tried to figure out how to turn it. He also likes to ride a bike. He also loved taking the bike apart and seeing how it worked. He traveled to Cornell University in New York, home of the Big Red. He was a student of Carl Sagan. He graduated in 1977 from Cornell. Other schools he attended were Lafayette Elementary, Sidwell Friends School and Alice Deal Junior High Vikings. He then moved to Seattle, Washington. There he worked as a mechanical engineer for a company called the Boeing Aircraft Company. The next job he has...