Bill Nye, the Science Guy, is a scientist who teaches science to children through videos. He is a scientist, engineer, comedian, author and inventor. His full name is William Sanford Nye. He was born in Washington, DC. He was born on November 27, 1955. His height is 6 feet 1 inch. His parents are Jacqueline and Edwin Darby Nye. His siblings are Susan Nye and Edwin Nye. His mother was a code breaker during World War II. His father was detained in a Japanese prison camp. His earliest childhood memory was launching a paper airplane powered by a rubber band. He tried to figure out how to spin it. He also likes cycling. He also enjoyed taking the bike apart and seeing how it worked. He went to Cornell University in New York, home of the Big Red. He was a student of Carl Sagan. He graduated in 1977 from Cornell. The 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 Boeing Aircraft Company. Next job, ha...