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DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI • SCIENCE GURU
about dr karl
Karl Kruszelnicki, more popularly known as ‘Dr Karl’ is many things but is best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and tv.
His media career began in 1981 when he presented Great Moments In Science on Double J to pay his way through medical school. Since then, his media career exploded from radio to include TV, books, newspapers, magazines, scripting, and professional speaking.
Hosting eight weekly radio shows on ABC and the BBC, he presents the world of science, medicine and technology in an interesting and graspable way with an added dose of humour for your light-hearted entertainment.
Karl has (so far) written 43 books, beginning with 1984's Great Moments In Science, and including titles such as, It Ain’t Necessarily So...’Bro' (2006) which was launched, quite literally, via rocket at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
In 1996 Karl was invited by the United States Information Agency to be a Distinguished Foreign Guest. Previous Alumni of this program include Julius Nyere, Anwar Sadat, Indira Ghandi and Margaret Thatcher. As part of this program he visited NORAD, Dryden Air Force Base and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory – and sat in the front seat of an SR-71 Blackbird!
Dr Karl was bestowed with the honour of receiving the Member of the Order of Australia Award in the 2006 Australia Day Honours list, and was delighted to have Asteroid 18412 named after him in 2012.
Dr Karl holds degrees in Physics and Maths, Biomedical Engineering, Medicine and Surgery and has worked as a physicist, tutor, film-maker, car mechanic, labourer and as a medical doctor at the Kids’ Hospital in Sydney. He is currently the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at Sydney University, where his ‘mission’ is to spread the good word about science and its benefits.
This will be Dr Karl’s fourth expedition to Antarctica. With his enthusiasm for science and life no one is better able to convey the wonder of it all than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki!
“I’M EXCITED TO EXPLORE PARTS OF THE ANTARCTIC I HAVEN’T YET VISITED AND I’M HOPING TO ARRANGE A CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT, COLLECTING DATA THAT WILL BE USEFUL FOR SCIENTISTS,” DR KARL
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