Obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago in just three yearsWon many outstanding awards
In 1969, he received the Steacie Memorial Scholarship for the best young scientist in Canada.
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Hosted CBC’s longest-running television science show, The Nature of Things (1979–2023).Environmental activist.
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In 1974, he was hired to host the CBCtelevision program Science Magazine. He became the first host of the CBC radioseries Oddities and Quarks.
Produced several science television seriesin collaboration with internationalbroadcasters.● In 1971-72, he hosted the CBC televisionseries Suzuki on Science.
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Impact on Community
During World War II, William Lyon Mackenzie King enacted a law offering Japanese Canadians two choices:Resettle east of the Rockies. Be “repatriated” to Japan after the war.
Restrictions prohibiting JapaneseCanadians from living within 160 kilometers of the British Columbia coast were not lifted until 1949.
After high school, Suzuki attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1958
His specialties were meiosis, the early division of living cells where differentiation begins and the study of mutations caused by temperature changes.
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Produced several science television seriesin collaboration with internationalbroadcasters.In 1971-72, he hosted the CBC televisionseries Suzuki on Science.