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In “The Independent Practice of Science,” James Lovelock describes his earlier professional milieu as a salaried researcher at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in London in 1961, prior to his emancipation as an independent scientist. It was then that NASA sent him “an invitation to be an experimenter on the first lunar Surveyor mission. It was well known at the NIMR that I regarded science as a way of life in which science fiction was reduced to practice”.
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Clarke, B. (2021). Lynn Margulis, Autopoietic Gaia, and the Novacene. In: Baecker, D. (eds) Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33415-4_22
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