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James Lovelock

1919 - 2022

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James Ephraim Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) 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-regulating system. With a PhD in the chemistry of disinfection, Lovelock began his career performing cryopreservation experiments on rodents, including successfully thawing frozen specimens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Lovelock has received more than 1,279,164 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). James Lovelock is the 20th most popular geographer (up from 22nd in 2019), the 758th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 885th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Geographer.

James Lovelock is most famous for his Gaia hypothesis, which he first presented in the 1970s. The Gaia hypothesis states that the Earth's biosphere and the physical components of the Earth (atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere) are closely integrated to form a complex interacting system that maintains the climatic and biogeochemical conditions on Earth favorable to life.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, James Lovelock ranks 20 out of 86. Before him are Georg Joachim Rheticus, George Everest, Pomponius Mela, Ibn Khordadbeh, Paul Vidal de La Blache, and Ibn Jubayr. After him are Sebastian Münster, David Harvey, Al-Bakri, Élisée Reclus, Abraham Cresques, and Zakariya al-Qazwini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, James Lovelock ranks 36. Before him are Andreas Papandreou, Moïse Tshombe, Leon Festinger, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, César Manrique, and James M. Buchanan. After him are Mordechai Anielewicz, Jennifer Jones, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jackie Robinson, Pete Seeger, and Georges Duby. Among people deceased in 2022, James Lovelock ranks 55. Before him are Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Louise Fletcher, Meat Loaf, Antonio Inoki, Arata Isozaki, and Valeri Polyakov. After him are Hardy Krüger, Stanislav Shushkevich, Issei Sagawa, Robert Curl, Siniša Mihajlović, and Ricardo Bofill.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Lovelock ranks 758 out of 8,785. Before him are Mike Hawthorn (1929), Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley (1508), Banksy (1970), William Holman Hunt (1827), H. Rider Haggard (1856), and James Hadley Chase (1906). After him are Amy Winehouse (1983), Bernard Hill (1944), Margaret of York (1446), John Fowles (1926), Samuel Richardson (1689), and Henry Fielding (1707).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, James Lovelock ranks 2. Before him are George Everest (1790). After him are David Harvey (1935), John Walter Gregory (1864), Doreen Massey (1944), Aaron Arrowsmith (1750), John Speed (1551), Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880), and Alexander Keith Johnston (1804).

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