David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC OBC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D. 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 mid1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and longrunning CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over forty nations. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.

Suzuki has a twin sister named Marcia, as well as two other siblings, Geraldine and Dawn. They were born to Setsu Nakamura and Kaoru Carr Suzuki in Vancouver, British Columbia. Suzukis maternal and paternal grandparents had emigrated to Canada at the beginning of the 20th century from Hiroshima and Aichi Prefecture respectively.

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