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Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki (born 1948), often referred to as Dr Karl, is an Australian
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and populariser, who is known as an author and a science commentator on Australian radio, television, and podcasts. Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Science Foundation for Physics at the School of Physics,
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.


Early life

Kruszelnicki () was born in
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,
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, to
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parents, Rina and Ludwik. Kruszelnicki's background was hidden from him for a long time, with his mother having told him that she was Swedish and a
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but she was, in fact, Polish and
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. Both his parents were
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. His father Ludwik, a Polish
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, was turned in to the
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for smuggling Jews out of Poland and was imprisoned at Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp used mainly for political prisoners. As the end of
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approached, Ludwik avoided execution by swapping identities with a dead person. Rina escaped the
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when the Nazis ran out of
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that was used to gas prisoners. They separately fled to Sweden, where they met, and where Karl was born. When Kruszelnicki was two years old, his parents became concerned about the risk of Sweden being overrun by Russia and decided to flee the country. Before boarding a boat bound for America, Karl became ill with fever following a
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. Worried for his health, his parents decided not to board the boat. "Luck has it that the next ship went to Australia, so that is where we ended up. It is amazing how fate can take you in unexpected directions." On arrival in Australia, the family were tenanted at the migrant camp in
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. They remained there for three years before settling in the city of
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,
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. Kruszelnicki said his childhood as a refugee in Wollongong was difficult, and he was bullied at school; he said "anybody who was not an Irish Catholic was considered an outsider". He found an escape in the Wollongong Library, where he became interested in science fiction. Kruszelnicki attended Edmund Rice Christian Brothers College in
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. After high school, he attended the
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, completing a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in physics in 1968."Dr Karl Kruszelnicki" (22 July 1988). ''Campus Bulletin'', University of Newcastle, Australia. Number 5. In 1980, Kruszelnicki was awarded a Master of
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degree at the
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. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees at
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in 1986. After primary school, Kruszelnicki's first job was ditch digger in the Wollongong suburb of
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. He also worked as a filmmaker, car mechanic, TV weatherman and as roadie for
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. While working as a taxi driver in Sydney, he was beaten unconscious after picking up a passenger trying to escape a group of men.


Science career

After graduating from university at age 19, Kruszelnicki took a job as a physicist working for a
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in his home town of Wollongong. He designed a machine to test the strength of steel made for use in Melbourne's
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, which was under construction at the time. After he was asked to fake the results of his tests, he resigned. In the early 1980s, Kruszelnicki worked for
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. His Master of Biomedical Engineering degree allowed him to design and build a machine to pick up electrical signals off the human retina to diagnose certain eye diseases. Kruszelnicki commenced his degree in medicine at the
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at the age of 32, graduating in 1986. From here he began work at a number of hospitals around Sydney, including the Children's Hospital in Camperdown. He talks fondly of his time as a children's doctor, though he left this profession after witnessing the first child die from
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in twenty years. This came about, he says, after a television program tried to create controversy by presenting the efficacy of vaccinations with a
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. This caused a drop in
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, and eventually the death of this child. "That very strongly influenced me to go into the media, because I felt like I could do more good there (convincing people to vaccinate). And as a result, I gave up the best job of my life, which was being a doctor in a kids' hospital, so I could do more good in the community."


Television

Kruszelnicki presented the first series of ''
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'' (replaced by ''
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'') in 1985. As a science communicator and presenter, he appears on the Seven Network's ''
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'' and on ABC TV. From early 2008 to 2010 he co-hosted a TV series called ''
Sleek Geeks ''Sleek Geeks'' is an Australian science television series, hosted by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer. The fourteen-part series aired from 3 January 2008, and was based on Kruszelnicki and Spencer's Sleek Geek Week travelling roadshow, as ...
'' with Adam Spencer. Kruszelnicki presented a program on ABC TV in January 2025 titled ''Dr Karl's How Things Work''.


Journalism, radio and podcasts

Kruszelnicki does a number of weekly radio shows and
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. His hour-long show on
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radio station
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has been going on in one form or another since 1981; this weekly science
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show, ''Science with Dr Karl'', is broadcast on Thursday mornings from 11:00 am to midday and attracts up to 300,000 listeners; it is also available as a podcast. Kruszelnicki also often helps with other science and education
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promotions such as the Sleek Geek Week roadshow with
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and Caroline Pegram. He and Adam Spencer released the ''
Sleek Geeks ''Sleek Geeks'' is an Australian science television series, hosted by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Adam Spencer. The fourteen-part series aired from 3 January 2008, and was based on Kruszelnicki and Spencer's Sleek Geek Week travelling roadshow, as ...
'' podcast regularly until December 2015. Also, Since 2016, he has hosted the podcast ''Shirtloads of Science.'' For many years, until March 2020, Kruszelnicki appeared on a live weekly late-night link-up on
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's '' Up All Night'', usually with
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, answering science questions. In 2017, he hosted '' Dr. Karl's Outrageous Acts of Science'' on
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. Kruszelnicki writes a regular column for ''
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'' magazine, called 'Need to Know', which is republished as
blog
on the magazine's website. He has also written for the ''
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'' ''Good Weekend'' magazine. In 1981, he appeared on an
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about death and near-death experiences that aired on the
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, '' And When I Die, Will I Be Dead?'' It was adapted into a book in 1987.


Politics

Kruszelnicki was an unsuccessful candidate for the
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in the
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. He was placed number two on the Climate Change Coalition ticket in
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. In 2015, Kruszelnicki appeared in an Australian Government advertising campaign for the recently published intergenerational report. He had previously agreed to do the campaign, believing it would be a "non-political, bipartisan, independent report." After its publication, however, he backed away from the campaign, describing it as "flawed". "How can you possibly have a report that looks at the next 40 years and doesn't mention climate change? It should have acknowledged that climate change is real and we cause it and it will be messy."


Personal life

Kruszelnicki met his wife Mary in his first year of medical school. They have three children together: Karl, Alice, and Lola. Kruszelnicki has
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, meaning he lacks the ability to recognise faces. To help him recognise co-workers, he has been known to carry a seating map of familiar office spaces. He puts the cause of his condition down to having an unhappy, lonely childhood, saying that it impeded the development of the part of his brain responsible for remembering faces.


Recognition and awards

In 2000, the ''
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'' Internet Awards awarded Kruszelnicki the Best Science and Technology Website. In the 2001
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, he was awarded the
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"for major service in raising public awareness of the importance of science and technology". One of Kruszelnicki's more notable undertakings was his part in a research project on belly button fluff, for which he received the tongue-in-cheek
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in 2002. He received the
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award in 2003. In the 2006 honours list, he was made a Member of the
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. In 2006, the
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recognised him as the Australian Skeptic Of The Year. In 2012, Kruszelnicki was named as a National Living Treasure by the
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(NSW). In 2012,
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asteroid 18412 Kruszelnicki was named in his honour. In 2014, ''
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'' readers voted Kruszelnicki as the ninth-most-trusted person in Australia In 2016, he received an honorary doctorate from the
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. Kruszelnicki won UNESCO's 2019
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for science communication. In 2024 Dr Karl was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Newcastle for being a highly celebrated and passionate advocate for science, education, and health. 2024 TikTok High-Quality Content Creator of the Year Award 2025 NSW Senior Australian of the Year for inspiring millions with his science storytelling, tackling misinformation and making complex ideas accessible. 2025 Awarded a Bellagio Center Residency in Italy from The Rockefeller Foundation to develop a strategy using Artificial Intelligence to counter climate change disinformation.  2025 "A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir" was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards for Biography of the Year.


Selected publications

; Books * * * ''Spacescape'', Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (Australia), 1992, . * ''Absolutely Fabulous Moments in Science'', Australian Broadcasting Corporation Enterprises, Sydney, Australia, 1994, . * ''Sensational Moments in Science'', Australian Broadcasting Corporation Enterprises, Sydney, Australia, 1995, . * ''Pigeon Poo the Universe & Car Paint – and other awesome science moments'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 1996, . * ''Flying Lasers, Robofish and Cities of Slime – and other brain-bending science moments'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 1997, . * ''Munching Maggots, Noah's Flood and TV Heart Attacks and other cataclysmic science moments'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 1998, . * ''Fidgeting Fat, Exploding Meat & Gobbling Whirly Birds – and other delicious science moments - New Moments in science 4'', 1999. * ''Q&A With Dr. K – Why It Is So. Headless Chickens, Bathroom Queues and Belly Button Blues'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2001, . * ''Dr Karl's Collection of Great Australian Facts & Firsts'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2002, . * ''Bumbreath, Botox and Bubbles and other Fully Sick Science Moments'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2003, . * ''Great Mythconceptions – Cellulite, Camel Humps and Chocolate Zits'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2004, . * ''Dis Information and Other Wikkid Myths: More Great Myths In Science'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2005, . * ''It Ain't Necessarily So Bro'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2006, . * ''Please Explain'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2007, . * ''Science Is Golden'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia 2008 * ''Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Science'', HarperCollins Publishers Pty Ltd, Australia, 2009, . * ''Dinosaurs Aren't Dead'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2010 * ''Curious and Curiouser'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2010 * ''Brain Food'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2011 * ''50 Shades of Grey Matter'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2012 * ''Game of Knowns'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2013 * ''Dr Karl's Big Book of Science Stuff and Nonsense'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2013 * ''House of Karls'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2014 * ''Dr Karl's Short Back & Science'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2015 * ''The Doctor'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2016 * ''Karl, The Universe and Everything'', Pan Macmillan Pty Limited, Australia, 2017 * ''Vital Science'', Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, Australia, 2018 * ''Dr Karl's Random Road Trip Through Science'', HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited, Australia, 2019 * ''Dr Karl's Surfing Safari Through Science'', HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited, Australia, 2020 * ''Dr Karl's Little Book of Climate Change Science'', HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited, Australia, 2021 * "A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir", HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited, Australia, 2024 ; Journal articles *


See also

*
Adam Spencer Adam Barrington Spencer (born 29 January 1969) is an Australian comedian, media personality and former radio presenter. He first came to fame when he won his round of the comedic talent search '' Raw Comedy'' in 1996. Soon thereafter, he bega ...


References


External links

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Dr Karl on the ABC website

Dr Karl's page with the University of Sydney Science Foundation

TAM 2014 - Karl Kruszelnicki - Great Moments in Australian Science
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