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1 James Ephraim Lovelock BY: Tahoun Ochea Mahoney Period 6 science Schmit

2 key terms Gaia Theory- viewing Earth as a living biological organism. Agnostic- not having a religion (not even atheist)

3 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)

4 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.

5 Awards & prizes part 1 1955 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

6 Awards and prizes part 2 1988 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

7 Pictures

8 Works cited Detailed biography of James lovelock Ecolo 24 march 2009 <http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/ lovedeten.htm James lovelock nndb 2 april 2009 James lovelock google 2 april 2009 http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q =james+lovelock&gbv=2 (images not other)


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