David Attenborough
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Emerging from a childhood of fossil hunting in Leicester, he entered university as a part-time geology student at Nottingham before winning a Cambridge scholarship that led to a natural sciences degree, and completed two years of Royal Navy service. After a brief period editing children’s science texts, a three-month BBC training course launched a broadcasting career that began with the 1954 serie…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
