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Tim Flannery farewells scientist James Lovelock, who has returned to Gaia at 103

  • Written by: Tim Flannery, Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
Tim Flannery farewells scientist James Lovelock, who has returned to Gaia at 103James Lovelock, when he was 94, posing with one of his early inventions, a homemade gas chromatography device, used for measuring gas and molecules present in the atmosphere.Nicholas.T.Ansell/AP

James Lovelock, scientist and inventor, returned to Gaia on his 103rd birthday, July 26 2022.

Just three years earlier, I had attended his 100th birthday...

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