James Lovelock

James Lovelock graduated as a chemist from Manchester University and went on to receive a PhD in medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a DSc in biophysics from London University. After graduating from Manchester he started employment with the Medical Research Council at the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

In 1954 he was awarded the Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship in Medicine and chose to spend it at Harvard University Medical School in Boston. In 1958 he visited Yale University for a similar period. In 1961 he took up full time employment as Professor of Chemistry at Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he remained until 1964. Since 1964 he has conducted an independent practice in science, although continuing honorary academic associations as a visiting professor.

James Lovelock is the author of more than 200 scientific papers, distributed almost equally among topics in Medicine, Biology, Instrument and Atmospheric Science and Geophysiology. He has applied for more than 40 patents, mostly for detectors for use in chemical analysis. (Continued)