David takay sohi suzuki was born on 24th of march 1936 in vanvouver to a karoru carr suzuki and setsu nakamura ,he went to london central secondary school and graduated at the unavirstiy of chicogo
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In 1942, during the Second World War, the family was interred in a camp at Slocan in the British Columbian Interior, and his father was sent to work in a labor camp in Solsqua.
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When World War ended in 1945, his family shifted to Islington, Learnington where he attended Mill Street Elementary School and Learington Secondary School. Here, his interest in the environmental studies was stimulated by his father.
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he family then shifted to London, Ontario and he began to attend London Central Secondary School. His popularity is attested by the fact that he became the Students' Council President by a massive majority.
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He graduated in Biology in 1958, from Amherst College in Massachusetts where he became fascinated with the study of genetics, and completed his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Chicago, three years later.
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He became a professor in the Genetics Department at the University of British Colombia in 1963. He devoted his career as an academician to genetic research using fruit flies as the model.
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He began his television career with the children’s program, Suzuki on Science, in 1970. The initial episodes of the series echoed the host’s specialty of genetics but, the later ones encompassed other areas.
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In 1974, he hosted on CBC AM radio, a programe called ‘Quirks and Quarks’. The show had the host interviewing scientists and a panel of scientists replying to listener’s questions.
From 1975 till the end of the decade, he hosted a weekly television program called ‘Science Magazine’, which targeted the adult audience. There were interviews, science updates and segments like ‘How Things Work’. -
In 1990, his book, ‘Genethics: The Clash between the New Genetics and Human Values’ was published to enlighten and educate a lay person on modern genetic technology and the many ethical issues involved.
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He produced the documentary, ‘Yellowstone to Yukon: The Wildlands Project’, in 1997, for the Discovery Channel, based on conservationist Dave Foreman’s project about creating buffer zones around large wild reserves to preserve biological diversity.
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David Suzuki: The Autobiography’, published in 2006, traces his life from childhood to his current celebrity status. It was No. 1 on Maclean's list of non-fiction bestsellers in Canada for four weeks.
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In 2004, he was voted as the ‘Fifth Greatest Canadian’, from a list of ten finalists, by viewers in the television series ‘The Greatest Canadian’ by the ‘Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’.
