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Bio
David Suzuki, Co-Founder of the
David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and
broadcaster. He is renowned for his radio and television programs that
explain the complexities of the natural sciences in a compelling, easily
understood way.
Dr. Suzuki is a geneticist. He graduated from Amherst
College (Massachusetts) in 1958 with an Honours BA in Biology, followed by a
Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961. He held a research
associateship in the Biology Division of Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Lab
(1961 – 62), was an Assistant Professor in Genetics at the University of
Alberta (1962 – 63), and since then has been a faculty member of the
University of British Columbia. He is now Professor Emeritus at UBC.
In 1972, he was awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship for the
outstanding research scientist in Canada under the age of 35 and held it for
three years. He has won numerous academic awards and holds 24 honourary
degrees in Canada, the U.S. and Australia. He was elected to the Royal
Society of Canada and is a Companion of the Order of Canada. Dr. Suzuki has
written 48 books, including 19 for children. His 1976 textbook An
Introduction to Genetic Analysis (with A.J.F. Griffiths), remains the most
widely used genetics text book in the U.S. and has been translated into
Italian, Spanish, Greek, Indonesian, Arabic, French and German.
Dr.
Suzuki has received consistently high acclaim for his thirty years of
award-winning work in broadcasting. In 1974 he developed and hosted the long
running popular science program Quirks and Quarks on CBC Radio for four
years. He has since presented two influential documentary CBC radio series
on the environment, It’s a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to
Superspecies. His national television career began with CBC in 1971 when he
wrote and hosted Suzuki on Science. He was host of Science Magazine (1974 –
79) then created and hosted a number of television specials, and in 1979
became the host of the award-winning series, The Nature of Things with David
Suzuki. He has won four Gemini Awards as best host of different Canadian
television series. His eight part television series, A Planet for the
Taking, won an award from the United Nations. His eight part BBC/PBS series,
The Secret of Life, was praised internationally, as was his five part series
The Brain for the Discovery Channel. On June 10, 2002 he received the John
Drainie Award for broadcasting excellence.
Dr. Suzuki is also
recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He is the recipient of
UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environment Program
Medal, UNEPs Global 500 and in 2009 won the Right Livelihood Award that is
considered the alternate Nobel.
Publishers
• Douglas & McIntyre -
David Suzuki's Canadian Publisher (English)
• Éditions du Boréal - David
Suzuki's Quebec Publisher (French)
• Allen & Unwin - David Suzuki's
Australian Publisher
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