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David Suzuki
Sign in to saveAlso known as David Takayoshi Suzuki, Dr David Suzuki
Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
Film & TV
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Known for
- The Art of Adventure — Self2025
- The Stand — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2024
- Rat City — Narrator2023
- The Scientist's Warning — Self2022
- What You Won't Do For Love — David Suzuki2021
- 39-45 en sol canadien — Self2021
- Dinosaur Cold Case — Self - Narrator2020
- Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble — Self2020
- Something in the Air — Self - Narrator2019
- The Nature of Millennials — Self - Narrator2018
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Key facts
- Born
- David Takayoshi Suzuki , ( 1936-03-24 ) March 24, 1936 (age 90) , Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
- Education
- Amherst College ( BA ), University of Chicago ( PhD )
- Spouse s
- Setsuko Joane Sunahara ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1965 ) , Tara Elizabeth Cullis ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1973 )
- Children
- 5, including Severn
- Awards
- Order of Canada , (OC 1976, CC 2006) UNESCO 's Kalinga Prize (1986) Right Livelihood Award (2009)
- Institutions
- University of British Columbia
- Thesis
- Interchromosomal effects on crossing over in Drosophila melanogaster (1961)
- Doctoral advisor
- Bill Baker
- Other academic advisors
- Bill Hexter Dan Lindsley
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Vancouver
- Employer
- University of British Columbia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Sciences
- Field of work
- genetics
- Image
- David Suzuki (arms crossed).png
- Residence
- Vancouver
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- date of birth
- 1936-03-24
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- affiliation string
- David Suzuki Foundation
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Encyclopedic overview
David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host and narrator of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.
A longtime activist to reverse global climate change, Suzuki co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990. The Foundation's priorities are oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and Suzuki's Nature Challenge. The Foundation also works on ways to help protect the oceans from large oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Suzuki also served as a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982 to 1987.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “David Suzuki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.