James Lovelock

About James Lovelock

The Gaia hypothesis states that the biosphere is a self-regulating organism that regulates the chemical and physical environment around it. His work was influential in the modern environmental movement.

James Ephraim Lovelock, is an independent English scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia Hypothesis, which hypothesizes that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. With a doctorate in medicine, Lovelock began his career performing cold storage experiments on rodents, including the successful thawing of frozen specimens. His methods have influenced theories of cryonics. He invented the electron capture detector and used it, becoming the first to discover the wide presence of CFCs in the atmosphere. When designing scientific tools for NASA, he developed the Gaia hypothesis. In the 2000s, he proposed a climate engineering method to restore algae that consumed carbon dioxide.

Alma mater	University of Manchester (BSc), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (PhD)
Known for	Electron capture detector, Gaia hypothesis
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1974), Tswett Medal (1975), American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography (1980), Norbert Gerbier–MUMM Award (1988), Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences (1990), Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1990), Volvo Environment Prize (1996), Companion of Honour (2003), Wollaston Medal (2006), Arne Naess Chair in Global Justice and the Environment (2007)
Born	James Ephraim Lovelock, July 26, 1919, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England
Institutions	Independent scientist, Yale University, Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School
Fields	Chemistry, earth science
Thesis	The properties and use of aliphatic and hydroxy carboxylic acids in aerial disinfection (1947)

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Trivia

A detector he created showed human-made pollutants in the atmosphere, inspiring Rachel Carson's famous book, Silent Spring.

James Lovelock before fame

He didn't have enough money to go to college after high school, so he went to work as a photographer instead.

Achievement of James Lovelock

Rachel Carson's classic book, Silent Spring, was inspired by a detector he constructed that revealed human-made pollution in the atmosphere.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

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James Lovelock family life

He was born into a lower-middle-class household that valued education.

Associations of James Lovelock

He eventually admitted that he and many other global climate change advocates, such as Al Gore, were overly pessimistic.

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