Our Friend Bill Nye is the ABC News “Person of the Week!”

Bill Nye is an engineer, a science guy, and our friend. His work has influenced the lives of young people, science buffs, and Geekosystem bloggers for decades. We’re happy to see him honored as the ABC News “Person of the Week.” This clip gives a short profile of Nye’s life, work, and extensive bow tie collection. We don’t really have a “Person of the week,” here at Geekosystem, but now I kind of wish we did.

Neil deGrasse Tyson shared in the enthusiasm by tweeting out what he claims is a very rare picture of Nye without a bow tie:

I’ve got the only photo of Bill Nye @TheScienceGuy, this sector of the Universe, without his bow tie: pic.twitter.com/F1pTIEvJTv

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) June 22, 2013

(via ABC News)

Meanwhile in related links

• If you’re wondering why we keep calling him “our friend Bill Nye,” it’s because he said we could
• Nye makes an appearance in the ARKYD space telescope Kickstarter campaign video
• Mayim Bialik has a theory on how Bill’s superhero character Speedwalker shaves — also Superman