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- F. Sherwood Rowland - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1927-2012). U.S. atmospheric chemist F. Sherwood Rowland was a specialist in atmospheric chemistry and radiochemistry. He was among the first scientists to warn that chlorofluorocarbons released into the atmosphere were depleting the Earth’s protective ozone layer. In 1995 he won the Nobel prize in chemistry for that discovery.