Editing James Lovelock (section)

== Personal life ==
Lovelock married Helen Hyslop in 1942. They had four children and remained married until her death in 1989 from [[multiple sclerosis]].<ref name="Irvine-2005">{{Cite news |last=Irvine |first=Ian |name-list-style=vanc |date=3 December 2005 |title=James Lovelock: The green man |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/james-lovelock-the-green-man-517953.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006190725/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/james-lovelock-the-green-man-517953.html |archive-date=6 October 2008 |access-date=26 June 2019 |work=The Independent}}</ref><ref name="Carey-2009" /><ref>{{Who's Who | id= U24989 | title=Lovelock, Prof. James Ephraim }}</ref> He first met his second wife, Sandy, at the age of 69.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Siegle |first=Lucy |name-list-style=vanc |date=22 May 2005 |title=This much I know: James Lovelock, scientist, 86, Devon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/may/22/ethicalliving2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624063100/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/may/22/ethicalliving2 |archive-date=24 June 2019 |access-date=25 August 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Lovelock stated of their relationship: "...{{nbsp}}you would find the life of me and my wife Sandy to be an unusually happy one in simple beautiful but unpretentious surroundings."<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 November 2015 |title=James Lovelock – Independent Scientist, Inventor & Author |url=https://successness.com/2015/11/james-lovelock-independent-scientist-inventor-author/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624070036/https://successness.com/2015/11/james-lovelock-independent-scientist-inventor-author/ |archive-date=24 June 2019 |access-date=26 June 2019 |website=SUCCESSness}}</ref>

Lovelock [[turned 100]] in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 July 2019 |title=Centenarian could hold key to brighter future |url=https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/university/title_725718_en.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201224447/http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/university/title_725718_en.html |archive-date=1 February 2020 |access-date=7 February 2021 |publisher=University of Exeter |language=en}}</ref> He died at his home in [[Abbotsbury]], Dorset,<ref name="The Guardian-2022" /> on his 103rd birthday in 2022,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schneider |first=Keith |name-list-style=vanc |date=27 July 2022 |title=James Lovelock, Whose Gaia Theory Saw the Earth as Alive, Dies at 103 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/climate/james-lovelock-dead.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727155025/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/climate/james-lovelock-dead.html |archive-date=27 July 2022 |access-date=27 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref> of complications related to a fall.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 July 2022 |title=James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lovelock-creator-of-gaia-hypothesis-dies-on-103rd-birthday |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727134504/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lovelock-creator-of-gaia-hypothesis-dies-on-103rd-birthday |archive-date=27 July 2022 |access-date=27 July 2022 |work=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>