F. Sherwood Rowland
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 12 years ago |
Date of birth | June 28,1927 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Delaware |
Ohio | |
United States | |
Date of died | March 10,2012 |
Died | Corona Del Mar |
Newport Beach | |
California | |
United States | |
Books | The Changing Atmosphere |
Children | Ingrid D. Rowland |
Job | Professor |
Author | |
Chemist | |
Education | The University of Chicago |
The Delaware Entrepreneurial Center at Ohio Wesleyan University | |
Ohio Wesleyan University | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Japan Prize | |
Albert Einstein World Award of Science | |
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement | |
Peter Debye Award | |
Roger Revelle Medal | |
Tolman Award | |
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award | |
Fellow of the Royal Society | |
Academic advisor | Willard Libby |
Nationality | American |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 547273 |
F. Sherwood Rowland Life story
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.