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The Many Lives of James Lovelock
- Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory
Engelsk Hardback
The Many Lives of James Lovelock
- Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory
Engelsk Hardback

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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 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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781805302872
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1805302876
Udg. Dato:
12 sep 2024
Længde:
30mm
Bredde:
163mm
Højde:
243mm
Forlag:
Canongate Books
Oplagsdato:
12 sep 2024
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