What is David Suzuki?
{{Infobox scientist | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OBC|FRSC|size=100%}} | birth_name = David Takayoshi Suzuki | image = David Suzuki 2015.jpg | image_size = | caption = Suzuki in 2015 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1936|3|24}} | birth_place = [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada | field = | work_institutions = [[University of British Columbia]] | alma_mater = {{ublist|[[Amherst College]], B.A. (1958)|[[University of Chicago]], PhD (1961)}} | thesis_title = Interchromosomal effects on crossing over in Drosophila melanogaster | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302084370/ | thesis_year = 1961 | doctoral_advisor = Bill Baker | academic_advisors = {{ublist|Bill Hexter|Dan Lindsley}} | nationality = [[Canadians|Canadian]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = {{ublist|[[Order of Canada]], (1976, 2006)|[[UNESCO]]'s [[Kalinga Prize]] (1986)|[[Right Livelihood Award]] (2009)}} | signature = David Suzuki Signature.svg | influences = [[Ian McTaggart-Cowan]] }} '''David Takayoshi Suzuki''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OBC|FRSC}} (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science [[Television presenter|broadcaster]], and [[environmentalist|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]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://lfpress.ca/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=132947&x=articles&s=books|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060903143907/http://lfpress.ca/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=132947&x=articles&s=books|url-status=de