Pete is perhaps best known for his heroic rescue of Frenchman and fellow competitor Raphael Dinelli from mountainous Southern Ocean seas and hurricane force winds in the 1996 Vendee Globe single-handed round the world race, for which he was awarded the MBE by Her Majesty the Queen and the Legion d'Honneur by the French President. A regular lecturer at business schools, he is an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School Oxford University. He now splits his time between his ongoing adventures and delivering inspirational and motivational talks to organisations around the world. Pete is a sailor and adventurer turned entrepreneur and author of the bestselling book Close to the Wind. 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 is. In September 2003, Dr Karl was named "Australian Father of the Year".ĭr Karl Kruszelnicki received the Member of the Order of Australia Award in the 2006 Australia Day Honours list. In 2002, Dr Karl was honoured with the prestigious Ig Nobel prize awarded by Harvard University in the USA for his ground-breaking research into "Belly Button Lint and why it is almost always blue". With weekly Radio shows in Australia and in the UK on the BBC, regular television appearances, magazine articles and 43 (so far) published books, Dr Karl is constantly in demand by the media and for corporate appearances. The Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at Sydney University, Dr Karl spreads the word about science and its benefits. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (pronounced crucial-nitski) is the man with the answers when it comes to Science and Technology.
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