James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regu
Lovelock in 2005
Electron capture detector developed by Lovelock in the Science Museum, London
The study of planetary habitability is partly based upon extrapolation from knowledge of the Earth's conditions, as the Earth is the only planet currently known to harbour life (The Blue Marble, 1972 Apollo 17 photograph).
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity is a book by James Lovelock. Some editions of the book have a different, less optimistic subtitle: Earth's Clim