Dr
Karl Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Physics Department
at Sydney University.PUBLIC LECTURE by Karl Kruszelnicki
Dr
Karl Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Physics Department
at Sydney University.
Whenever the announcer gives out the phone number for Karl Kruszelnicki’s famous Science Talkback show, Great Moments in Science, on Triple J, on Thursday mornings - so many calls come in that the ABC switchboard crashes!
Karl’s media career began in 1981, when he started presenting ‘Great Moments In Science ’ on Double J to pay his way through medical school. Since then, his media career has exploded from radio to include TV, books, newspapers, magazines, scripting, public speaking, and of course, the Net. His science homepage (which has well over 2.5 million words on it) gets about 250,000 pages downloaded each month - www.abc.net.au/science/k2 .
He made his TV debut in 1985 as the presenter of the first series of Quantum, and left after one year to continue his medical studies. Since 1986 he has reported science as a regular on the Midday Show, Good Morning Australia (including a full-time stint in 1991-2 as the TV weatherman and science reporter). He has completed three series of Second Opinion (medical/science program) on SBS. Karl also popularises science on radio stations across Australia, for several hours each week.
Karl has written (so far) 20 books, beginning with Great Moments In Science in 1984. According to the “New Scientist” Magazine Karl’s last three books have all hit the position of best-selling Popular Science book in Australia. His latest book: “Q & A with Dr. K - Headless Chickens, Bathroom Queues and Belly Button Blues” was released in 2001. Karl has also had two books released in the United States.
In 1996 Karl was invited by the United States Information Agency to be a Distinguished Foreign Guest in their International Visitor Program. 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.
Karl has degrees in Physics and Maths, Biomedical Engineering, Medicine and Surgery and has worked as a physicist, tutor, filmmaker, car mechanic, labourer and as a medical doctor at the Kids’ Hospital in Sydney. In 1995 he took up the position of the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at Sydney University, spreading the good word about science and its benefits.
His enthusiasm for science is totally infectious and no-one is better able to convey the excitement and wonder of it all than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.