BIOLOGIST

David Suzuki

1936 - Today

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David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Suzuki has received more than 1,883,748 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). David Suzuki is the 693rd most popular biologist (down from 600th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Canada (down from 298th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of David Suzukis by language

Over the past year David Suzuki has had the most page views in the with 173,054 views, followed by French (10,224), and Japanese (5,557). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (191.21%), Volapük (82.37%), and Ukrainian (52.76%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, David Suzuki ranks 693 out of 1,097. Before him are Henri Cassini, August von Pelzeln, Ernst Stromer, John Abbot, Johann Natterer, and Astrid Cleve. After him are Johann Jakob Kaup, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Carl Skottsberg, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, and Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, David Suzuki ranks 353. Before him are Betty Curtis, Pen Sovan, László Szabó, José Torres, Anton Allemann, and Hans van den Broek. After him are Abdelhamid Brahimi, Revaz Gabriadze, Néstor Gonçalves, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Gerald Guralnik, and Michał Heller.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, David Suzuki ranks 328 out of 1,622. Before him are Pom Klementieff (1986), Seth Rogen (1982), Nancy Huston (1953), Percy Williams (1908), Kenneth E. Iverson (1920), and Steven Erikson (1959). After him are Susan Clark (1943), Mary Harron (1953), Rick Danko (1943), Carole Laure (1948), Jacques Villeneuve (1953), and Jacques Plante (1929).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, David Suzuki ranks 3. Before him are Ralph M. Steinman (1943), and John Murray (1841). After him are George Romanes (1848), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), William Diller Matthew (1871), Robert H. MacArthur (1930), Peter Watts (1958), Alice Wilson (1881), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979), Alice Eastwood (1859), and Carrie Derick (1862).

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