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David Murray Gates

American ecologist, physicist and botanist (1921-2016) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 94

David M. Gates was an American ecologist who sounded early warnings that fossil fuels, fertilizers and pesticides posed a potentially fatal threat to the global environment. He published over fifty research papers and six books.

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His most influential book, "Energy Exchange in the Biosphere," is often called the Rosetta Stone for biologists studying plant-environment heat exchange.

Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1921 to 2016 · aged 94