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  James Lovelock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In early 1961, Lovelock was engaged by NASA to develop sensitive instruments for the analysis of extraterrestrial atmospheres and planetary surfaces.
To Lovelock, the stark contrast between the Martian atmosphere and chemically-dynamic mixture of that of the Earth was strongly indicative of the absence of life on the planet.
Lovelock is currently president of the Marine Biological Association, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, and in 1990 was awarded the first Dr.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Lovelock   (909 words)

  
 Jack Lovelock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Edward "Jack" Lovelock (January 5, 1910 – December 28, 1949) was a New Zealand athlete, and a 1936 Olympic champion.
Born in the town of Crushington (near Reefton) as the son of English immigrants, Lovelock showed talent for sports while at high school.
The highlight of Lovelock's career came in 1936, when he won the gold medal in the 1500 m at the Berlin Olympics, setting a new world record in the final (3:47.8).
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lovelock   (257 words)

  
 James Lovelock - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919), FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the west of England.
Lovelock is currently president of the Marine Biological Association, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, and in 1990 was awarded the first Amsterdam Prize for the Environment by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Lovelock was among the first researchers to sound the alarm about the threat of global warming from the greenhouse effect.
open-encyclopedia.com /James_Lovelock   (421 words)

  
 Ecologist, The: The Good The Bad…And The Ugly - James Lovelock, Richard D. North
Lovelock's Devon idyll is a long way from Brixton, where he was raised as the only child of working-class parents in the 1920s and 30s.
Lovelock was precocious, and learnt more from the books he read in Brixton library than he did at his highly regimented and detested school.
Then, in 1961, Lovelock received an invitation to join NASA as a consultant at their Jet Propulsion Laboratories in California, where scientists were designing experiments to test for the presence of life on the Moon and on Mars.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2465/is_9_30/ai_68742883   (1517 words)

  
 Salon Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lovelock is the inventor of the electron capture detector, a palm-size chamber that detects man-made chemicals in minute concentrations.
Lovelock concluded that life -- microbes, plants and animals constantly metabolizing matter into energy, converting sunlight into nutrients, emitting and absorbing gas -- is what causes the Earth's atmosphere to be so, well, lively.
Lovelock and Margulis, considered coauthor of the Gaia theory, soon discovered other bits of "good fortune." Although the sun has strengthened steadily, the Earth's surface temperature has stayed comfortable for life for hundreds of millions of years.
dir.salon.com /people/feature/2000/08/17/lovelock   (2721 words)

  
 Gaia, Lovelock and HolismGaia & Lovelock
Lovelock extends this stance to claim that the earth is alive, a superorganism on which the living things, the air, the oceans, and the rocks all combine in one as Gaia.
Where Lovelock classes the Gaian model as geophysiology and models it upon physiology, holism is based upon interactions of animals with their environment and the interdependence that evolves between life forms.
Lovelock states: "The evolution of the species and the evolution of their environment are tightly coupled together as a single and inseparable process." Statements like this are dangerous for their interpretation extends from the local to the global sphere!
www.ecotao.com /holism/gem_lovelock.htm   (9898 words)

  
 Lovelock, James (Ephraim)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A Londoner, Lovelock was educated at the universities of London and Manchester during the early years of World War II.
After twenty years with the NIMR Lovelock began to feel that his creativity was being stifled by the security of his position as a scientific civil servant.
Lovelock argued in 1979 that the Earth, including its rocks, oceans, and atmosphere, as well as its flora and fauna, was a living organism "maintained and regulated by life on the surface." He referred to it as 'Gaia' after the Greek Earth goddess - a suggestion made by the novelist William Golding.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/L/Lovelock/1.html   (390 words)

  
 City Of Lovelock
Lovelock is 2 square miles in size, which includes 3 public parks, skateboard park, a community swimming pool, hospital, elementary, middle and high school, public library, community center and many businesses ranging from feed stores to casinos.
George Lovelock, pioneer, the founder of two towns which bear his name, honor and respected as the patriarch of the town of Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada, had during his life of eighty-three years, a career of varied experience, passed in different climes, and of successful effort and accomplishment.
George Lovelock was a tireless and faithful worker in the developing of the agriculture and mineral resources in the Humboldt County section.
www.cityoflovelock.com   (1219 words)

  
 James Lovelock -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lovelock was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Letchworth Garden City) Letchworth Garden City.
A lifelong inventor, he created inventions of which some were adopted by (An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight) NASA in its program of planetary exploration.
Lovelock worked for NASA on the (The 4th planet from the sun) Mars (Click link for more info and facts about Viking program) Viking program spacecraft project during the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_lovelock.htm   (354 words)

  
 James Lovelock Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919) is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the west of England.
A lifelong inventor, some of his inventions were adopted by NASA in their program of planetary exploration.
Lovelock is currently president of the Marine Biological Association, was elected a FRS in 1974, and in 1990 was awarded the first Amsterdam Prize for the Environment by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_lovelock.html   (284 words)

  
 SF Book Review for Lovelock by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lovelock has spent most of his life happily recording the life of Carol Jeanne with a love that is both conditioned psychologically and amplified by his implants.
In Lovelock, the strife that accompanies life in the Ark clearly is a result of people reevaluating the patterns of their life when put in a new environment.
Lovelock is a stunning book and my only problem with it is that, as the first book in a series, the story stops at a natural point, but you still want to know what is going to happen next.
www.termanweb.net /sfbkrev/lovelock.html   (1443 words)

  
 Cowboy Country ~ Lovelock
Lovelock's greenery is fed by the waters of the Humboldt River, stored at Rye Patch Reservoir, a state recreation area 22 miles north of the city.
Speaking of "well-rounded," Lovelock's claim to architectural fame is its round courthouse, said to be the only one of its kind in the nation still functioning as a courthouse.
Lovelock grew as an important waystation for the traveler on the way West.
www.cowboycountry.org /lovelock.shtml   (325 words)

  
 Gaia Theory: Science of the Living Earth
In the early 1960's, James Lovelock was invited by NASA to participate in the scientific research for evidence of life on Mars.
Lovelock concluded that for this to be the case the gases must be in constant circulation, and that the pump driving this circulation was life.
This tied in well with Lovelock's observation that the Earth is chemically far from equilibrium, and the nonlinearity of the feedback loops such as the carbon dioxide cycle.
www.gaianet.fsbusiness.co.uk /gaiatheory.html   (2673 words)

  
 WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Lovelock: 'Only nuclear power can now halt global warming'
Perhaps the category for this post should be "a nuclear electric green." James Lovelock, who with Lynn Margulis formulated the Gaia Hypothesis, says that a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world's main energy source is required to mitigate the effects of global warming.
The same issue also includes an article noting that Lovelock was one of the first to warn of the potential disastrous impact of client change, and a piece about significant indicators of potentially catastrophic change: the rapid melting of the Arctic ice sheet covering Greenland, and the extreme heatwave in western central Europe last summer.
Lovelock (in his editorial) makes a compelling case that climate change is happening faster and will be more disruptive than is commonly believed.
www.worldchanging.com /archives/000746.html   (2393 words)

  
 The Gaia theory was created in the early 1960's by James Lovelock and a colleague of his, Dian Hitchcock, purely by ...
Lovelock suddenly realisation that the Earth could best be described as a kind of super-organism: "For me, the personal revelation of Gaia came quite suddenly - like a flash of enlightenment.
The Key to Lovelock's Gaia Theory was his observation that the planet is almost self-regulating.
Lovelock, Margulis and others discovered that the process is greatly accelerated by the presence of soil bacteria.
www.k12.nf.ca /gc/scienceweb/Environmental/local-environment/freake-wells/invention.html   (852 words)

  
 Lovelock Elementary School
The mission of Lovelock Elementary School is to provide a safe and healthy environment where students receive instruction from a professional staff in a climate of excellence.
Lovelock Elementary School is located in the rural community of Lovelock, Nevada.
Lovelock Elementary School is proud to offer many different programs to meet the needs of our diverse student population.
www.pershing.k12.nv.us /elementary/les.htm   (129 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Lovelock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The narrator, Lovelock, is a genetically enhanced capuchin monkey trained to function as a "witness," recording the life and thoughts of the person to whom he is attached.
Lovelock's gradual metamorphosis from contented "slave" to secret rebel echoes the conflicts of the humans around him as the enclosed environment of the spaceship exposes freedom's illusions.
Seeing these people through Lovelock's eyes is a quick eye opener: the mother-in-law as a status hungry moocher and lay-about and the father-in-law and husband as wimps who meekly go along with just about anything the mother-in-law wants.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/031287751X   (1693 words)

  
 The Gaia Hypothesis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lovelock defines Gaia "as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet." Through Gaia, the Earth sustains a kind of homeostasis, the maintenance of relatively constant conditions.
As part of a NASA team formed in 1965 to look for life on other planets, Lovelock was asked to propose hypotheses that would demonstrate whether life existed on a planet or not.
Lovelock initially suggested that life itself maintained the composition of the atmosphere, but has broadened the concept to include the whole system of the climate, the rocks, the air, and the oceans as a self-regulating process.
www.oceansonline.com /gaiaho.htm   (4185 words)

  
 Lovelock, Nevada: History and Description
Lovelock in those days was a part of Humboldt County, and in 1905, Allen Bragg, editor of the daily Silver State in Winnemucca, came to pay his respects.
"Lovelock is 'on the trail' to be a city of considerable magnitude," he wrote.
Lovelock incorporated as a city in 1917, but was so broke two years later that the City Council laid off the Indian Policeman and the night Jailer.
www.nevadaweb.com /cnt/cc/lovelock.html   (1581 words)

  
 Lovelock: 'Only nuclear power can now halt global warming' | EnergyBulletin.net | Energy and Peak Oil News
Professor Lovelock, who achieved international fame as the author of the Gaia hypothesis, the theory that the Earth keeps itself fit for life by the actions of living things themselves, was among the first researchers to sound the alarm about the threat from the greenhouse effect.
In today's Independent, Professor Lovelock says he is concerned by two climatic events in particular: the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which will raise global sea levels significantly, and the episode of extreme heat in western central Europe last August, accepted by many scientists as unprecedented and a direct result of global warming.
His appeal, which in effect is asking the Greens to make a bargain with the devil, is likely to fall on deaf ears, at least at present.
www.energybulletin.net /320.html   (798 words)

  
 The Gaia Hypothesis - Dr James Lovelock & Dr Lynn Margulis
But perhaps the most popularly known counter-argument employed by Lovelock at this time (in fact in 1983) was the systematic behaviour of the theoretical planet of Daisyworld which, like the earth, maintained its global temperature reasonably constant in the face of time and the increasing energy output of its sun.
However it is interesting to note that James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis acknowledge the geologist-physician James Hutton's concept of a living Earth as a forerunner to the Gaia hypothesis.
James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis coined the phrase the Gaia hypothesis to suggest not only that life has a greater influence on the evolution of the Earth than is typically assumed across most earth science disciplines but also that life serves as an active control system.
www.mountainman.com.au /gaia_jim.html   (4580 words)

  
 Lovelock Associates
In October 2004, Christopher Lovelock was invited to deliver a plenary presentation at the annual Frontiers in Services conference at the University of Miami and co-sponsored by the American Marketing Association.
Lovelock served on the committee for the 2003 conference.
Lovelock took his daughter Liz, then 15, with him to Australia, where she spent a term as a student at Indooroopilly State High School in Brisbane.
www.lovelock.com /associates/news.html   (5873 words)

  
 The vision of James Lovelock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Born in 1919, James Lovelock was educated at the University of London and Manchester University and holds a Ph.D. in medicine.
Dr Lovelock is president of the Marine Biology Association, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London in 1974.
In collaboration with other NASA project researchers, Lovelock predicted the absence of life on Mars based on the consideration of the Martian atmosphere and its state of being in a chemically dead equilibrium.
noosphere.cc /lovelockmenu.html   (569 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | World 'appeasing' climate threat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Professor Lovelock won acclaim for developing the Gaia Hypothesis, which suggests the Earth functions as a single organism which maintains the conditions necessary for its survival.
Professor Lovelock said: "In the late 1930s when I was a student we knew that war was imminent, but there was no clear idea of what to do about it.
Professor Lovelock said global warming was "the response of our outraged planet", and the consequences for humanity were likely to be far worse than any war.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3766831.stm   (729 words)

  
 The Lovelock Mummies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1911, several mummified remains of mysterious red-haired humans ranging from 2-2.5 meters(6 1/2 to over 8 feet) tall were disinterred in Lovelock cave, 112 kilometers (70 miles) north-east of Reno, Nevada, by a guano mining operation.
What was left was salvaged by various local people, only for most of it to be destroyed when the shed they were kept in caught fire and burned to the ground.
However, one of the Lovelock skulls, almost 1 foot tall, is preserved with some related bones and artifacts at the Humboldt County Musuem in Winnemucca, Nevada, and various Lovelock artifacts are also held at the Nevada State Historical Society's musuem in Reno.
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Lagoon/1345/Lovelock.html   (155 words)

  
 Padre de la teoría Gaia lanza autobiografía.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A sus 81 años, Lovelock sigue dándose el lujo de expresarse sin rodeos y de fascinar al gran público con su peculiar estilo -llamativo, directo y sencillo- de hablar sobre la ciencia y sus desafíos.
Lovelock se convirtió pronto en un autor de "bestsellers" en la denominada "popular science", dando vida a tres libros inspirados en Gaia.
Lovelock acudió junto a su esposa y siguió defendiendo su pionera hipótesis: "cuando uno inicia una gran teoría -como la mecánica cuántica o la evolución- generalmente toma unos 40 años para que la ciencia la tome en cuenta.
www.tierramerica.net /2000/1001/padre.html   (513 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Lovelock (Mayflower Trilogy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She is provided with a "witness", Lovelock, a genetically modified and conditioned capuchin monkey who records her every waking moment for posterity.
The setting for the novel "Lovelock" - first in a projected trilogy - is a massive 'ark' of a spacecraft departing the solar system to search for a new habitable planet.
Given the vast mental capacities programmed into him (even among the enhanced witnesses Lovelock seems to be quite the intellectual prodigy) and the fact that it never seems to occur to any human that a mere animal could do anything But docilely serve them, the answer might be surprising.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031287751X?v=glance   (2398 words)

  
 New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz: Lovelock's lost trophy found   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lovelock's former school, Timaru Boys' High, already has the gold medal Lovelock earned for his 1500m run on prominent display, alongside many other items of memorabilia related to the first New Zealander to win an Olympic track and field gold medal.
However, almost no one knew Lovelock also received a 3.6kg cup engraved with an imperial eagle and swastika and with a Bohemian lead crystal lid for his world record-setting run.
Lovelock died in 1949 in the United States.
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3311056a11,00.html   (465 words)

  
 Science Show - 17/11/01: James Lovelock
Robyn Williams: James Lovelock, father of Gaia has now written his memoirs and once more he records his belief that conservationists should give the nuclear option a chance.
James Lovelock: The intriguing thing to me is the method I suggested NASA use back in 1960’s for finding life on Mars was to look at Mars’s atmosphere and see if it was close to what’s called the chemical equilibrium state or whether it showed signs of life on it.
James Lovelock: If you were on a star ship a parsec away from the earth and with a good enough telescope to resolve it you could say instantly yes, that planet has life, it’s carbon based and it’s industrial without any trouble at all using current instruments.
www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s421192.htm   (849 words)

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