Homage to GAIA: The Life of an Independent Scientist Book

	Preface and Acknowledgements
	List of Plates and Figure
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Childhood	7
2	The Long Apprenticeship	37
3	Twenty Years of Medical Research	67
	The Voyage on HMS Vengeance in 1949	87
4	The Mill Hill Institute	101
	The Year in Boston	111
	My Last Years at the Mill Hill Institute	120
5	The First Steps to Independence at Houston, Texas	139
6	The Independent Practice of Science	147
	Shell	152
	The Security Services	160
	Hewlett Packard	170
	Inventions	176
7	The ECD	181
8	The Ozone War	191
	The Voyage of the Shackleton in 1971-2	195
	The Voyage of the Meteor in 1973	216
9	The Quest for Gia	227
10	The Practical Side of Independent Science	265
	Computers	274
	The Royal Society	278
	The Marine Biological Association	281
	Living in Ireland	285
	Coombe Mill	295
11	Building Your Own Bypass	309
12	The Score Years and Ten and then the Fun Begins	349
13	Epilogue	383
	Index	393