The Resume

(March 24, 1936- )
Canada's preeminent science broadcaster
Carries a global reputation as a geneticist, professor, public lecturer, and environmental and civil rights activist
Host of 'The Nature Of Things' on CBC
Has hosted dozens of TV and radio series and specials
Author of 18 books

Why he might be annoying:

He was raised in the back of the family dry cleaner's shop.
His inability to speak Japanese alienated him from his peers.
He staged and participated in protests and demonstrations at his University.
In his 1989 radio show, 'It's a Matter of Survival,' Suzuki assumed a more confrontational environmentalist stance and said that the public 'must take a strong advocacy position' to protect the earth lingering on the edge of extinction.
He said that the 'most destructive people' live in developed nations.
He described the attitude of the Western world as 'like being in a huge car driving at a brick wall at 100 miles an hour and most of the people in the car are arguing about where they want to sit.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He overcame his poor background.
He was sent to internment camps during World War II.
He won the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, presented to Canada's Best Young Scientist Under 35, three times.
He earned a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Chicago (1961).
Suzuki served as Canadian delegate to the International Congress of Genetics in Tokyo (1968).
He was named Outstanding Japanese-Canadian of the Year (1972).
He won a Canadian Human Rights Foundation Award (1975).
He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada(1976).
He earned a Governor General's Award for Conservation (1985).
He earned a United Nations Environment Program Medal (1988).
He once described as 'one of the world's most effective popularizers of science, alongside Carl Sagan and Jacques Cousteau.'
He urges Western society to reconsider the way they treat the environment and other less-developed countries.
He is seen as a Canadian icon.

Credit: Jet

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Air Farce Members [Royal Canadian Air Farce]
• Car Names
• CBC's Greatest Canadians (Ranked: 5)
• Corner Gas - Guest Stars
• I Attended Amherst College
• I Attended University of Chicago
• I Come from Canada
• I Covered Bill Withers’ 'Lean on Me’
• I Earned a Doctorate
• I Was Imprisoned at a Japanese Internment Camp in the US
• Jet's Profiles [Series 1]
• Profiles 4751-5000 (Ranked: 4758)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 71 Votes: 43.66% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 18 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 72.22% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 20 Votes: 35.00% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 50 Votes: 74.00% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 50 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 108 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 117 Votes: 50.43% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 209 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 288 Votes: 48.96% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 549 Votes: 47.18% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 763 Votes: 50.98% Annoying