The Many Lives of James Lovelock
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Based on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and
unprecedented access to his personal papers and scientific archive,
Jonathan Watts has written a definitive and revelatory biography of
a fascinating, sometimes contradictory man. James Lovelock is best
known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is
a self-sustaining system in which organisms interact with their
environments to maintain a habitable ecosystem. Lovelock's life was
a chronicle of twentieth-century science, and somehow he seemed to
have a hand in much of it.During the Second World War he worked at
the National Medical Research Institute, where his life-long
interest in chemical tracing began. In the 1960s he worked at NASA.
He worked for MI5 and MI6 during the Cold War.He was a science
advisor to the oil giant Shell, who he warned as early as 1966 that
fossil fuels were causing serious harm to the environment. He
invented the technology that found the hole in the Ozone layer. And
all of this shaped Gaia Theory - a theory that could not have been
developed without the collaboration of two important women in his
life.Drawing together the many influences which shaped his life and
thinking, The Many Lives of James Lovelock is a unique biography of
one of the most fascinating scientists of the modern age.
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Canongate Books ,
Jonathan Watts
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Jonathan Watts
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