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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 medicine, 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 1,208,695 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). James Lovelock is the 22nd most popular geographer (down from 17th in 2019), the 886th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 655th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, James Lovelock ranks 22 out of 67. Before him are Pomponius Mela, Ya'qubi, David Harvey, Ibn Jubayr, Élisée Reclus, and Abraham Cresques. After him are Georg Joachim Rheticus, Al-Bakri, Fra Mauro, William Morris Davis, Sebastian Münster, and Zakariya al-Qazwini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, James Lovelock ranks 46. Before him are Hermine Braunsteiner, Pete Seeger, Oleg Penkovsky, Iris Murdoch, César Manrique, and Chavela Vargas. After him are Georges Duby, Lauri Törni, Martin Balsam, Art Blakey, William Lipscomb, and Donald J. Cram. Among people deceased in 2022, James Lovelock ranks 67. Before him are Ivica Osim, Wim Jansen, Ivan Reitman, Jacques Perrin, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Ray Liotta. After him are Christos Sartzetakis, Robert Curl, Eric Walter Elst, Antonio Inoki, Bob Saget, and Issey Miyake.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Lovelock ranks 886 out of 7,765. Before him are Joseph Swan (1828), Thomas Chatterton (1752), Frederic Leighton (1830), Mike Newell (1942), Archer Martin (1910), and James Paul Moody (1887). After him are Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Robert Clive (1725), Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594), Michael Atiyah (1929), Andy Serkis (1964), and Martin Evans (1941).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, James Lovelock ranks 3. Before him are George Everest (1790) and David Harvey (1935). After him are Doreen Massey (1944), John Walter Gregory (1864), John Speed (1551), and Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880).

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