I and my twin sister were born in Vancouver, Canada many years before the Second World War. During the war my?

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I and my twin sister were born in Vancouver, Canada many years before the Second World War. During the war my family and I suffered internment for several years. The government sold our family’s dry-cleaning business and my father was forced to work in a labor camp. who is this person???????????

Despite my troubled beginnings, I went on to earn a BA and eventually a Ph.D in Zoology in 1961. I remained a professor in zoology for 40 years at the University of British Columbia.

During this time, I used my knowledge and passion for nature to develop several radio programmes and TV shows. Since 1979, my science and nature show has aired in over 50 countries and was pushed with the aim of increasing awareness on climate change, a sustainable society and renewable resources.

Answer 1

A producer of really great programming:

Such recognition, particularly those bestowed to him in his native Canada, are in hindsight quite ironic. Growing up as a third generation Japanese-Canadian, Suzuki, his sisters and mother were placed in internment camps in 1942 by the Canadian government. After the war Suzuki and his family were forbidden by law to return to their Vancouver home.

DAVID SUZUKI. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 24 March 1936. Educated at Amherst College in Massachusetts, U.S.A., B.A., 1958; University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1961; postdoctoral research, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Married: 1) Setsuko Joane Sunahara, 1958 (divorced 1965), children: Tamiko, Laura, Troy; 2) Tara Elizabeth Cullis, 1972, children: Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Sarika Cullis-Suzuki. Held positions as research and teaching assistant, 1957-59; research associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, 1961; assistant professor, University of Alberta, 1962-63; assistant professor, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, 1963-69; professor, University of British Columbia since 1969; television and radio host, various science proggrams; syndicated newspaper columnist, since 1989; author of numerous books and scientific articles. Recipient: E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, 1969-71; Outstanding Japanese-Canadian of the Year Award, 1972; Order of Canada, 1976; Science Council of British Columbia Gold Medal, 1981; Biological Council of Canada Gold Medal, 1986; United Nations Environment Program Medal, 1985; UNESCO's Kalinga Award, 1986; Canadian Booksellers Association's Author of the Year, 1990. Address: c/o Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2A9 Canada.

TELEVISION SERIES

1960- The Nature of Things (host)
1971-72 Suzuki on Science
1974-79 Science Magazine (host)

TELEVISION SPECIALS

1977 The Hottest Show on Earth (host/co?writer)
1977 Trouble in the Forest (host)
1979 "How Will We Keep Warm" (Part 1 of The Remarkable Society Series)
1986 Fragile Harvest (narrator)

RADIO SERIES

1975-79 Quirks and Quarks
1980 Earthwatch
1983- Discovery with David Suzuki
1989 It's a Matter of Survival

PUBLICATIONS (selection)

An Introduction to Genetic Analysis, with A.J.F. Griffiths. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1976.

Metamorphosis. Toronto, Canada: Stoddart, 1987.

Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life, with Peter Knudson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Answer 2

David Suzuki

Answer 3

There have been many injustices done to people of good quality during the WW 2 period. In the U.S. the Japanese people were interned as well. Most of them were good citizens but the type was easily distinguished and fell under the combine suspicion by the government. In your case I presume it was the German ancestry that imprisoned you and your sister. Were you Canadian citizen?
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