David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki  (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. He was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until he retired in 2001. 

Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has made television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is host and narrator of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things.

Suzuki was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2009. 

Suzuki is an atheist. Review of book "David Suzuki: The Autobiography", by David Suzuki (Greystone Books, 2006)

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