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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1995 F. Sherwood Rowland was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1927, and received his B.A. degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. His "accelerated academy schedule" made him eligible for the final year of university in 1945, aged 18, but he then enlisted in the Navy, joining a programme to train radio operators and as a "Specialist in Athletics". In 1948 he was admitted to the University of Chicago from which he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. He taught at Princeton University and the University of Kansas before joining in 1964 the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, where he is presently Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science. In 1973 his interest shifted from radiochemistry to atmospheric chemistry and focused on the chlorofluorocarbon-ozone problem which was soon to become a highly visible public concern. The paper he published with his co-worker Mario Molina in 1974 and their pioneering work subsequently led to the scientific understanding of the depletion of the ozone layer which has helped to shape far-reaching decisions on the prohibition of the release of gases that destroy ozone. It also led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry of which he was co-recipient in 1995 together with P. Crutzen and M. Molina. Sherwood Rowland is the author of over 330 scientific publications in the areas of atmospheric chemistry, radiochemistry, and chemical kinetics. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, for which he is currently the Foreign Secretary, and has served as President and Chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His numerous international honours and awards include seven honorary doctorates of science and of laws, the Japan Prize in Environment Science and Technology, the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, and the Roger Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union. In 1991, he was listed as one of the "1000 Makers of the Twentieth Century" by the London Sunday Times. |
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