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SUZUKI | 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 programmes 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 PhD in Zoology from the
University of Chicago. He held a research associateship in the
Biology Division of Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Lab (1961-1962),
was an Assistant Professor in Genetics at the University of Alberta
(1962-1963) and since them, has been a faculty member of the
University of British Columbia. He is now Professor Emeritus
of the University of British Columbia, Sustainable Development
Research Institute.
In 1972, he was awarded the
F.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship for the outstanding research
scientist in Canada under the age of 35. He has won numerous
academic awards and holds 22 honourary degrees in Canada, the
U.S. and Australia. A member of the Royal Society of Canada and
a Companion of the Order of Canada, Dr. Suzuki has written 42
books, including 17 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, Indonesia, Arabic, French and German.
Dr. Suzuki has received consistently
high acclaim for his 30 years of award-winning work in broadcasting.
In 1974, he developed and hosted the long running popular science
programme, "Quirks and Quarks" on CBC Radio. 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 television career
began with CBC in 1971 when he wrote and hosted "Suzuki
on Science." He then created and hosted a number of television
specials, and in 1979 became the host of the award-winning "The
Nature of Things with David Suzuki." He has won four Gemini
Awards as best host of a Canadian television series for this
programme, which he has been with for 26 of the 46 season they
have been on air. His eight-part television 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. On 10 June 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
Programme Medal and the Global 500. He is a fellow of the American
Association of the Advancement of Science.
| www.davidsuzuki.org
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