Professor James Lovelock

I saw a pretty interesting and relevant documentary about this Lovelock professor who has made huge contributions to science and our understanding of the world by turning his back on the scientific institutions and working from his homemade laboratory in a devon country cottage.

One of his most noted and controversial contributions is the theory of Gaia which proposed the planet as a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep itself healthy by controlling the chemical and physical environment. He has made many other huge contributions to human knowledge over his career... all from his little homemade lab in devon. He is definitely an eccentric chap, the kind of visionary that can channel his eccentricity and passion to make new discoveries and change beliefs... proving you don't have to be working for major scientific institutions to do so.

He really struck a chord with the idea of our own character in his own space being left to his own devices (although ours is based around a more obsessive belief in more speculative subject matter). Good stuff professor.