Dr. David Takayoshi Suzuki was born
on the 24th March, 1936, in Vancouver Canada. During World War
II, at the age of six, he was interned with his family in a camp in
BC. After the war, he went to high school in London, Ontario. He
graduated with Honours from Amherst College in 1958 and went on to
earn his PhD in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961.
An internationally respected geneticist, David was a full
Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from
1969 until his retirement in 2001. He is professor emeritus with
UBC's Sustainable Development Research Institute. From 1969 to 1972
he was the recipient of the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Memorial
Fellowship Award for the "Outstanding Canadian Research Scientist
Under the Age of 35".
He has received numerous awards including the Roger Tory Peterson
Award from Harvard University. He is a Companion of the Order of
Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia. He has
received 20 honorary doctorates - 13 from Canada, four from the
United States and three from Australia. First Nations people have
honoured him with six names, formal adoption by two tribes, and made
him an honorary member of the Dehcho First Nations.
Suzuki became famous throughout
the world for his devotion to being an environmental activist and
his work as a science broadcaster. David has received consistently high acclaim for his 30 years of
award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of
science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to
millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's
popular science television series, The Nature of Things.
His eight part series, A Planet for the Taking won an
award from the United Nations. His eight-part PBS series The
Secret of Life was praised internationally, as was his
five-part series The Brain for the Discovery Channel. For
CBC Radio he founded the long running radio series, Quirks and
Quarks and has presented two influential documentary series on
the environment, From Naked Ape to Superspecies and
It's a Matter of Survival.
Suzuki had a quite large broadcasting career. His career started in 1979,
where he hosted
"The Nature of Things" which aired around fifty countries worldwide.
Suzuki also hosted a television series called "The Secret of Life". He
also won an award, the United Nations Environment Program Medal in 1985
for his hit television series "A Planet for the Taking".
Suzuki also did a four hour mini-series called "The Sacred Balance" which
aired in 2001.
Suzuki has won many honours and awards these include, Canada’s most
prestigious award, the Order of Canada Officer which he won in 1976 it has
been upgraded to Companion status in 2006, he was awarded the UNESCO’s
Kalinga Prize for science 1986 and the Order of British Columbia in 1995
as well as numerous other Canadian and international honours. Suzuki was
nominated as one of the top 10 "Greatest Canadians" by viewers of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Suzuki is also a co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. The Foundation
was officially opened in 1991. The Foundation mainly concentrates on
environmental issues including, aquaculture, biodiversity, climate change,
global warming, ecosystem-based forestry, and sustainable fisheries.
The author of 43 books, David Suzuki is
recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He lives with
his family in Vancouver, Canada.
(Source:
Wikipedia &
David Suzuki Foundation)
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