David Suzuki | |
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Suzuki in 2015 | |
| Born | David Takayoshi Suzuki March 24, 1936 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | Interchromosomal effects on crossing over in Drosophila melanogaster (1961) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bill Baker |
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| Influences | Ian McTaggart-Cowan |
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David Takayoshi Suzuki CC OBC FRSC (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. He was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until he retired in 2001.
Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has made television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is host and narrator of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things.
Suzuki was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2009.
Suzuki is an atheist.
As an atheist, Suzuki declares, he has no illusions about life and death, adding that the individual is insignificant in cosmic terms.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) Review of book "David Suzuki: The Autobiography", by David Suzuki (Greystone Books, 2006)