James Ephraim Lovelock is a scientist, researcher, author and independent environmentalist. He is specialist in the Sciences of the atmosphere. He currently lives in the county of Cornouailles, in Great Britain.

Biography

James Lovelock was born with Letchworth (Great Britain), the July 26th 1919. He studies chemistry with the Université of Manchester then turns to a station to the Council of Medical research (Medical Research Council) of London.

Its work

Its gifts for the discoveries with the remote consequences enabled him to invent a detector of electron S which can hold in the palm of the hand and thanks to which one can detect chemical substances of human manufacture in infinitesimal amounts. At the end of the Years 1950, this apparatus was used to show that almost all the living beings of planet contained residues of Pesticide, since the Pingouin S of the the Antarctic until the Mother's milk with the the United States.

These are the observations which provided to Rachel Carson the source data of Silent Spring , the book founder of the awakening of the ecological questions and which was at the origin of the international countryside for the prohibition of DDT.

At the end of the Years 1960, Lovelock made the voyage of the the United Kingdom in the Antarctic, where, thanks to its detector, he discovered the omnipresence of CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbone S), gases of human manufacture which attack the Couche of ozone.

It is however as an author, with Lynn Margulis, of the Hypothèse Gaia, that Lovelock is most known. He however on several occasions protested against of the interpretations considered to be by him abusive of his theory.

The Geological Society off London decrees the to him Médaille Wollaston in 2006 for the " creation of an entirely new field of studies in Sciences of the ground " , the science of the system Ground .

See too

• Theory Gaia
• the data-processing Simulation Daisyworld

Works

• “ Gaia: In New Look At Life one Earth ” (1979, 3rd ED. 2000) Oxford University Near. ISBN 0192862189
• the ground is an living being, the assumption Gaïa (1993) Flammarion. ISBN 2-08-081283-1
• “ Great Extinction ” (1983) Co-authored by Michael Allaby. Doubleday ISBN 038518011X
• “ The Greening off Mars ” (1984) Co-authored by Michael Allaby. Warner Books. ISBN 0446329673
• “ Old off Gaia ” (1988, revised ED. 1995) Oxford University Close ISBN 0393312399
• ages of Gaïa (1990) Robert Laffont. ISBN 2-221-06585-9
• “ Gaia: The Practical Science off Planetary Medicine ” Gaia Books (1991 ED.) Oxford University Close US (2001 ED.) ISBN 0195216741 French Translation: Gaïa: a medicine for planet. Geophysiology, new science of the ground , by James. Preface of Jacques Grinevald. Frenchwoman Bernard Sigaud. 2nd edition. Paris, Blood of the Earth, 2001. 25 cm, 192 p., ill.
• “ Scientists one Gaia ” (1991) MIT Near, Cambridge, Farmhouse., the USA. ISBN 0262193108
• “ Gaia: Medicine for year Ailing Planet ” Gaia Books (2005 ED) ISBN 1856752313
• “ Homage to Gaia: The Life off year Independent Scientist ” Oxford University Close (2000) ISBN 0198604297 (Lovelock' S autobiography)
• “ The Revenge off Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity ” (2006) Allen Lane, Santa Barbara (California) ISBN 0713999144

Bonds

Discussion with James Lovelock (Current 1990)

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