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The Greatest Canadian Scientist By: Belal Nabiyar (6A)

Get ready to here the biography about one of the greatest scientist that roamed the earth and he is David Suzuki. He was born on the 24th of March in 1936 in Vancouver, Canada.

David’s youth was a tough one. During the time of his youth was World War 2 and since Canada was at war with Japan the Canadian government took David's father to an internment camp 100 km away from his family business. The conditions were so poor that people from Japan sent letters to the Canadian government complaining about it. After a while the government took away there family business. David his mother and so many others Japanese people were forced to move to the Rockies. Then David and his mother moved to London, ON where David's mother worked at the Suzuki Brothers company, a company run by David's uncle. After the war Prime Minister Brian Mulroney formally apologized to Japanese Canadians and authorized the provision of $21,000 (CD.) to each of the survivors of wartime detention in 1988.

David attended London Central Secondary school, Amherst College then to the University of Chicago.

He has won many awards including the order of Canada officer award the highest award a Canadian can ever receive. Believe it or not David is also the author of 52 books and of these 52, 15 are for children. David is as bright as a button. Some of his most famous quotes are “We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.”  “People…especially people in positions of power…have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.” “The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.”

David is also a TV host starring in the “Nature of Things”. He is also the co host of the David Suzuki foundation, a foundation that focuses on protecting the environment.

I learned that that David is an amazing scientist and we should follow his every step to take care of the environment because of all the pollution in the air and because global warming is become a more serious issue.

Bibliography

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki www.canada-heros.com/suzuki_david.html

www.ascensiongateway.com

www.davidsuzuki.org/david/

www.imdb.com/name/nm0840559/bio

http://www.limelightgroup.com/DavidSuzuki