James Ephraim Lovelock BY: Tahoun Ochea Mahoney Period 6 science Schmit
key terms Gaia Theory- viewing Earth as a living biological organism. Agnostic- not having a religion (not even atheist)
Universities University: Birbeck college (night school while employed) University: BS Manchester university (1941) University: PhD in medicine from London school of hygiene and tropical medicine University: PhD in biophysics London university (1959)
Inventions and discoveries One of few scientists to notice global warming invented the electron capture detector to measure man-made constructed chemicals in minute quantities.
Awards & prizes part CIBA Foundation Award for research in Ageing 1974 Made a Fellow of the Royal Society 1975 Tswett Medal for Chromatography 1980 American Chemical Society's Award for Chromatography 1986 The Silver Medal and Prize of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Awards and prizes part Norbert Gerbier Prize of the World Meteorological Association 1990 Amsterdam Prize for the Environment awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences 1990 Made a C.B.E. by Her Majesty the Queen 1996 The Nonino Prize 1996 Volvo Environment Prize 1997 Blue Planet Prize
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Works cited Detailed biography of James lovelock Ecolo 24 march 2009 < lovedeten.htm James lovelock nndb 2 april 2009 James lovelock google 2 april =james+lovelock&gbv=2 (images not other)