David Pearson

David Pearson (born 1942) is a British-born Canadian scientist, academic and television personality. He is a professor of earth sciences and science communication at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

Education Pearson was educated at the University of Durham, where he took a B.Sc. degree in geology in 1963, then at Imperial College, London, graduating Ph.D. and D.I.C. in 1967.

Career Joining the teaching staff of Laurentian University in 1969,

Pearson also hosted science-oriented television programming, including TVOntario's Understanding the Earth and MCTV's syndicated The World Around Us, in the 1980s. He received the Ward Neale Medal from the Geological Association of Canada for promotion of the earth sciences in 2001, and the McNeil Medal for science communication from the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.