Unlocking Lovelock: Scientist, Inventor, Maverick

In 2012 the Science Museum acquired the archive of James Lovelock – the man behind the Gaia hypothesis that the earth is a self-regulating system, but a pioneer also in medicine and space exploration. This exhibition explores the discoveries and postulations of this unconventional thinker. His working notebooks will be displayed (and his school reports), alongside equipment from his back-garden laboratory and the tools he used, including a watchmaker's lathe, an electron capture detector and gas chromatography apparatus he made that was used at the North Pole to confirm levels of atmospheric pollution.