The Many Lives of James Lovelock [electronic resource] : Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory
Jonathan Watts2024
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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
'Splendid' GUARDIAN
'Utterly fascinating' ROBERT MACFARLANE
'A scientific life as dissonant as it was remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMES
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 Sh...
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Author:
Jonathan Watts, Author
Imprint:
Edinburgh United Kingdom : Canongate Books, 2024
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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General / adult
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781837261550
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English
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527988
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