James Ephraim James Ephraim LovelockLovelock

BY: Tahoun Ochea Mahoney BY: Tahoun Ochea Mahoney Period 6 sciencePeriod 6 science

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key termskey terms• Gaia Theory-

viewing Earth as a living biological organism.

• Agnostic- not having a religion (not even atheist)

UniversitiesUniversities• 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 discoveriesInventions 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 1Awards & 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

Awards and prizes part 2Awards 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

Pictures Pictures

Works citedWorks 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)