Biology
David Suzuki
Geneticist and broadcaster on the environment
Born 1936
Photo: Holger Motzkau · CC BY-SA 3.0
«We're part of nature, we emerge from nature and return to it when we die.»
David Suzuki presented The Nature of Things on Canadian television for more than forty years, making him one of the most recognised science broadcasters in the world. He began as a research geneticist working on temperature-sensitive mutations in fruit flies.
Key achievements
- Hosted CBC's The Nature of Things for over forty years
- Founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990
- Ran a leading fruit fly genetics laboratory at UBC
Universities
Vancouver, British Columbia
Professor of genetics from 1963 to 2001, running a fruit fly laboratory while building a broadcasting career.
Facts
- His family was interned in a camp in the Canadian interior during the Second World War because of their Japanese ancestry.
- He won a national science prize as a young researcher before his broadcasting career began.
- His foundation works on climate and biodiversity policy across Canada.
Photographs
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