Scientists
James E. Lovelock
Brief Introduction:
Dr. James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919) is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the west of England. He is most famous for proposing and popularizing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism (term coined by Lynn Margulis).
Life history:
He was born in Letchworth Garden City and studied chemistry at Manchester University before taking up a Medical Research Council post at the Institute for Medical Research in London.
In 1948 he received a Ph.D. in medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has taught at Yale, Baylor University College of Medicine, and Harvard University.
Professional career:
Dr. Lovelock, as a lifelong inventor and works out of a barn-turned-laboratory in Cornwall, has some of his inventions been adopted by NASA in their program of planetary exploration. It was while working for NASA that Lovelock developed the Gaia Hypothesis.
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.
Lovelock was among the first researchers to sound the alarm about the threat from the greenhouse effect. His opinion is that "Only nuclear power can now halt global warming."
He also published over 200 scientific papers and quite a number of books [as
listed below].
- Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979, 3rd ed. 2000)
Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192862189
- Ages of Gaia (1988, revised ed. 1995) Oxford University
Press ISBN 0393312399
- Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine
- Gaia Books (1991 ed.) Oxford University Press (2001 ed.)
ISBN 0195216741
- Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent
- Scientist (Dr. Lovelock's autobiography) Oxford University Press (2000) ISBN 0198604297
Gregory M. Fahy
Dr. Gregory M. Fahy is the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of 21st Century Medicine.
Dr Fahy has 30 years of experience in the field of cryobiology and cryopreservation. As a scientist with the American Red Cross, he was the originator of the first practical method of Cryopreservation by vitrification and the inventor of computer based systems to apply this technology to whole organs. Before joining 21st Century Medicine, he was Chief Scientist for Organ, Inc and of LRT, Inc.
Prior to that he was Head of the Tissue Cryopreservation Section of the Transfusion and Cryopreservation Research Program of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where he spearheaded the original concept of ice blocking agents.
Respected for his expertise and contributions to the advancement of Cryobiology technologies and applications, Dr Fahy is a frequent speaker at national and international scientific meetings and workshops.
A native of California, Dr. Fahy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of California at Irvine and a Ph.D. from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
He currently holds a joint appointment as a visiting scholar in the Department
of Biochemistry at the University of California at Riverside. His scholarly
work is highly published and he holds more than 15 patents.
