David Suzuki is an environmentalist and science broadcaster from Canada. Suzuki is a Japanese Canadian who along with his family, was sent to an interment camp, at the age of five as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. His interest in science began at a young age, when he collected specimens, from swamps, to study. By the time of 1958, he graduated from Amherst College, in Massachusetts, with an honors bachelor’s degree in biology. Three years later he earned his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago. Next, Suzuki took a research associateship at Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Lab in the biology division from 1961 to 1962. Then from 1962 to 1963 he was an assistant professor teaching genetics at the University of Alberta.
