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ROWLAND, F. SHERWOOD (1927- ): An entry from Gale's <i>World of Earth Science</i>

The 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland share prize): An article from: Canadian Chemical News by D.J. Donaldson, T.T. Tidwell, 1996-01-01

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USNA Division Of Mathematics And Science - Michelson Lecture
Year, Speaker. 2002, Dr. F. sherwood rowland, nobel Laureate Donald BrenResearch Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine.
http://www.usna.edu/MathSci/michelson.htm

Extractions: Michelson Lecture The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series commemorates the achievements of Albert A. Michelson, whose experiments on the measurement of the speed of light were initiated while he was a military instructor at the U. S. Naval Academy. These studies not only advanced the science of physics, but resulted in his selection as the first Nobel Laureate in science from the United States. Each year since 1981, a distinguished scientist has come to the Naval Academy to present the Michelson Lecture. These scientists have represented a variety of scientific disciplines, including chemistry, physics, mathematics, oceanography, and computer science. Sponsoring Department Color Codes Chemistry Computer Science Mathematics Oceanography Physics
USNA Division Of Mathematics And Science - Michelson Lecture 2002
F. sherwood rowland. Professor rowland is the Donald Bren Research Professor ofChemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He shared the 1995 nobel
http://www.usna.edu/MathSci/michelson2002.htm

Extractions: Open to the Public ABSTRACT: As the 21st Century begins, several important alterations in the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere are well under way, with consequences which will be widely felt over the coming decades. Many of these can be grouped under three headings: depletion of stratospheric ozone, increased trapping of terrestrial infrared radiation with consequent warming of Earth's surface, and rising levels of surface pollution especially in urban environments. In all three instances, the major changes are occurring because of additional gases released to the atmosphere through the activities of the global population. F. Sherwood Rowland
Meet Mario Molina
adapted from the nobel Foundation's poster dealing with the prizewinning scienceof Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and F. sherwood rowland, from the nobel e-Museum
http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/faces/env/readings/molina.htm

Extractions: Mario Molina In 1973 Mario Molina was a postdoctoral researcher working in the laboratory of F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California at Irvine, just south of Los Angeles, when he made an unsettling discovery. He had been investigating a class of compounds called chlorofluorocarbons , or CFCs. CFCs were used as refrigerants , aerosol sprays, and in making plastic foams. Molina wondered what happened to them once they were released into the atmosphere. This was a hypothetical study, but his results showed disturbingly that CFCs could, in theory, destroy a compound called ozone under the conditions that exist in the upper atmosphere. Far above the earth's surface, a thin layer of ozone floats, protecting us from the sun's ultraviolet radiation . Molina, just a young scientist at the time, was nervous about showing Rowland his theory of how CFCs might destroy ozone . But if CFCs really could wipe out ozone, the whole world would be in trouble. Rowland took his protégé seriously. Over the next two decades he and Molina became voices crying in the wilderness, alerting the world to the danger of CFCs and ozone depletion. They weren't always heeded. Bans on CFCs in aerosol sprays went into effect first in the United States in 1978, and later in Canada, Norway, and Sweden. CFC use for other purposes only increased. Scientists, activists, politicians, and CFC-producing companies would argue for years over the merit of Molina's theories.
University Of Chicago News: Nobel Laureates
The nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 with F. sherwood rowland and Mario Molina fortheir work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/nobel/chemistry.html
AGU Web Site: F. Sherwood Rowland Receives Roger Revelle Medal
F. sherwood rowland, along with colleagues Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina,was awarded the nobel prize last November for discovering the threat
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/rowland.html

Extractions: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES Permission is hereby granted to journalists to use this material so long as credit is given, and to teachers to use this material in classrooms. F. Sherwood Rowland, along with colleagues Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina, was awarded the Nobel prize last November for discovering the threat chlorofluorocarbons pose to the ozone layer, for working to preserve the ozone layer, and for protecting human welfare. In May 1995 AGU awarded one of its highest honors, the Roger Revelle medal, to Rowland for his role in this work. The following remarks are excerpted from a speech by Richard P. Turco of the University of California, Los Angeles, who presented the AGU award. Sherwood (Sherry) Rowland is perhaps the ideal candidate for the Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union. I can think of no one in the field of atmospheric sciences better suited to receive this high honor, named for an intrepid crusader on behalf of the environment, the late Roger Revelle. I have known Sherry since 1975, which was soon after the publication of his landmark paper with Mario Molina on the depletion of stratospheric ozone by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). That brilliant piece of deductive science stands as the major triumph of the physical sciences in building a case for acting to preserve the global environment. It is the only theory of "global change" that has been universally accepted, and it now stands as a shining paradigm for international responsibility to safeguard the environment.
AGU Web Site: Pioneers In Ozone Research Receive Nobel Prizes In Chemistry
Only one other nobel prize has ever been warded in the realm of Mario Molina ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and F. sherwood rowland of the
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/nobel.html

Extractions: Permission is hereby granted to journalists to use this material so long as credit is given, and to teachers to use this material in classrooms. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded its 1995 Nobel prizes in chemistry to three AGU members for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone. Only one other Nobel prize has ever been warded in the realm of atmospheric research. The honorees are professors Paul Crutzen of the Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany; Mario Molina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and F. Sherwood Rowland of the University of California, Irvine. The Academy credits the three with contributing to "our salvation from a global environmental problem that could have catastrophic consequences." Crutzen, Molina, and Rowland are noted for their pioneering contributions to explaining how ozone forms and decomposes through chemical processes in the atmosphere. They have shown how sensitive the ozone layer is to the influence of anthropogenic emissions of certain compounds. The thin ozone layer has proven to be an "Achilles heel" that may be seriously damaged by moderate changes n the composition of the atmosphere. The work of these pioneers contributed in 1987 to the signing of the Montreal Protocol, a multinational accord that severely limited CFC emissions to protect the ozone layer. With a few exceptions, the gases that pose the greatest threat to the ozone layer will be completely banned by 1996. If the protocol guidelines are followed, it will take at least 100 years for the ozone layer to recover.
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F. sherwood rowland, Ph.D. Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry EarthSystem Science University of California at Irvine 1995 nobel Laureate in
http://www.tamu.edu/provost/udls/rowland.html

Extractions: About the Speaker Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland , Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry, came to the University of California, Irvine, in 1964 as the first chair of the Department of Chemistry. He previously held faculty positions at Princeton University and the University of Kansas. He holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, a master's and a doctorate from The University of Chicago, and a number of honorary degrees from universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Rowland is a specialist in atmospheric chemistry and radiochemistry, and was, with colleague Mario Molina, the first scientist to warn that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) released into the atmosphere were depleting the earth's critical ozone layer. Research on CFCs and stratospheric ozone eventually led in the 1970s to legislation in the United States, Canada and Scandinavia regulating the manufacture and use of chlorofluorocarbons, and in 1987 to the Montreal Protocol of the United Nations Environment Program, the first international agreement for controlling and ameliorating environmental damage to the global atmosphere. The terms of the Montreal Protocol were strengthened in 1992 to attain a complete phaseout of further CFC production by the year 1996.
F. Sherwood Rowland
F. sherwood rowland. F. sherwood rowland is a professor of chemistry at the Universityof California, Irvine and recipient of the 1995 nobel Prize in Chemistry.
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/racyberlib/Quest/interview-f_sherwood_rowland.html

Extractions: If you were suddenly to kill 750 million people in north temperature region and have another 350 million that were severely injured, disrupted most of your civilization, then you clearly are going to have major, major problems even if you didn't add to that severe climatic disturbance. It seems to me that the consequence of an all out nuclear exchange may not be the end of life, of human life on earth, but it would be the end of the present civilization. F. Sherwood Rowland F. Sherwood Rowland is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has received worldwide recognition for alerting nations to the danger posed by chlorofluorocarbons when released into the atmosphere through aerosol propellants, refrigerants, and solvents. Honors conferred upon Dr. Rowland include election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Geophysical Union, and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the world prize in ecology and energy. Whiteley: Your consideration of nuclear winter begins with several aspects of our current situation. The first is that the atmosphere has no national boundaries. What do you mean?
Chemical Education International
F. sherwood rowland won the nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995 together with MarioMolena and Paul Crutzen for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly
http://www.iupac.org/publications/cei/vol1/0101x0026.html

Extractions: (Nobel Laureate, 1995). Prof. F. Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995 together with Mario Molena and Paul Crutzen for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone Interviewer: Yoshito Takeuchi Professor Rowland received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1952 for work on the chemistry of radioactive atoms with Willard (Bill) F. Libby. After faculty positions at Princeton University and the University of Kansas, he moved to the new Irvine campus of the University of California as Donald Bren Professor of Chemistry and Earth System Science. In 1973, he started his groundbreaking work in atmospheric chemistry and has brought to light how the destruction of the ozone layer was taking place through the influence of chlorofluorocarbons in aerosol sprays and as solvents, and hence has shown the way to the concrete actions in the Montreal proposal which should enable the ozone layer to recover and thus prevent major environmental damage. Professor Rowland visited Japan on in June 2000 as the Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. On this occasion the interview was arranged for IUPAC CTC.
Nobelist F. Sherwood Rowland Is Iscol Lecturer
linked chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to ozone layer depletion, F. sherwood rowland,will inaugurate rowland shared the 1995 nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/99/4.15.99/Iscol.html

Extractions: By Roger Segelken The chemist who linked chloro-fluorocarbons (CFCs) to ozone layer depletion, F. Sherwood Rowland, will inaugurate the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lectureship at Cornell April 20 and 21, with lectures on science and public policy. "Our Changing Atmosphere: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Warming" is the title of Rowland's general-interest lecture on Wednesday, April 21, at 5 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. On Tuesday, April 20, at 4:40 p.m. he will deliver a scientific lecture, "True, False and Side Steps toward Understanding the Case of Ozone Depletion by Chlorofluorocarbons," in 200 Baker Laboratory. The lectures are free and open to the public. The Iscol lectureship is endowed at Cornell by Kenneth H. Iscol and his wife, Jill, to bring to the university scholars who are working at the frontiers of scientific inquiry on issues of paramount importance to humankind. Iscol lecturers spend one week on campus, meeting with undergraduate and graduate students faculty members and researchers, and delivering two public lectures. A 1960 graduate of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and president of Tel-Star Communications Corp., Kenneth Iscol is a member of the Administrative Board of the University Council at Cornell. The Iscol Distinguished Environmentalist Fund was established in 1991, and Rowland is the first designated lecturer.
Winner Of 1995 Nobel Prize In Chemistry To Speak At KU April 15 And 16
F. sherwood rowland, a former University of Kansas chemistry professor and recipientof the 1995 nobel Prize in chemistry, will deliver the Department of
http://www.ur.ku.edu/News/02N/AprNews/Apr1/rowland.html

Extractions: Contact: Amy Beecher Mirecki , College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, (785) 864-3516. LAWRENCE One of the scientists who received a Nobel Prize for determining that chlorofluorocarbons - or CFCs - were harming the Earth's atmosphere, will deliver two lectures on smog and global warming on the KU campus in April. F. Sherwood Rowland, a former University of Kansas chemistry professor and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will deliver the Department of Chemistry Werner Lecture, a technical/scientific lecture, at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in 110 Budig Hall at KU. He will speak on "Global Smog: Cities and Biomass Burning." On Tuesday, April 16, Rowland will present "The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming," a general lecture sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and the KU Center for Research. This lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
UC Irvine - Newsletter - Spring 2002
Winner's Circle F. sherwood rowland A Researcher with Global Impact. ResearchProfessor of Chemistry and Earth System Science nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
http://www.admissions.uci.edu/spring2002/winner_circle.html

Extractions: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry F. Sherwood Rowland wasn't always a rabble-rouser. That role came later, after a discovery that challenged basic ideas about the fate of man-made chemicals in the atmosphere. A distinguished chemist specializing in radioactive processes at UC Irvine, he was exploring new problems in the early 1970s when he chanced upon another scientist's observation. Aerosol propellants - the gases that put the spray in hair spray - didn't vanish into thin air, the scientist had noted, but accumulated in the stratosphere six to 30 miles above the Earth. The propellants, known as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were believed to be harmless, inert. But Rowland, now 74, wondered whether that was true, and he and a chemist in his group at UC Irvine, Mario Molina, pursued the question. What they quickly found would rock the government, threaten a huge industry and transform global environmental policy. It also earned them and Paul Crutzen of the Netherlands - upon whose earlier research they built - a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995. Molina and Rowland showed in their laboratory experiments that CFCs could react with the ultraviolet sunlight that strikes the upper atmosphere, setting off a chain reaction that destroys ozone there. And because ozone normally blocks UV light, they theorized, more and more UV rays would reach Earth as CFC levels rose. That, they argued, could cause more skin cancer and damage crops and forests.
Los Padres Section, ACS, Earth Odyssey
Inspiring Teachers and Competitive Athletics Excerpted from autobiographical notes,nobel website, 1995. F. sherwood rowland grew up in a family of avid readers
http://home.earthlink.net/~hoffen/WERM/WERM_2001_Kspeakers.html

Extractions: Nobel website, 1996 One of the earliest school memories of this Nobelist (1996) is that he was the kid with the funny name. At that time his name was Krotoschiner, nothing like the typical Lancashire names of his schoolmates. His German father changed the name with Silesia roots to Kroto in 1955. Sir Harry credits the beginnings of his research scientist inclinations to the time spent in his father's balloon factory during school holidays. He was called upon to fill in everywhere, from mixing latex dyes to repairing the machinery and replacing workers on the production line. Kroto states in his autobiographical sketch for the Nobel website, "I did the stocktaking twice-a-year using a set of old scales with sets of individual gram weights (weighing balloons 10 at-a-time to obtain their average weights), my head, log tables and a slide rule to determine total numbers of various types of balloons... After each stocktaking session I invariably felt that I never wanted to see another balloon as long as I lived. "
Today@UCI: Quick Facts: Fact Sheets: School Of Physical Sciences
gained international prominence in 1995 when professors F. sherwood rowland (Chemistry)and Frederick Reines (Physics) each received the nobel Prize, making
http://today.uci.edu/facts/physci.asp

Extractions: The school gained international prominence in 1995 when professors F. Sherwood Rowland (Chemistry) and Frederick Reines (Physics) each received the Nobel Prize, making UCI the first public university with faculty receiving Nobel prizes in two different fields in the same year. Research in the school also rates among the nation's finest in atmospheric chemistry, organic chemistry, geoscience, elementary particle physics and astrophysics. Its researchers play important roles with international neutrino projects, United Nations environmental surveys and with providing the scientific information that assists in the drafting of international treaties. State-of-the-art multidisciplinary research takes place at the Institute for Surface and Interface Science, the Chemical and Material Physics Program, the Program in Protein Engineering, the Program in Polymer and Material Chemistry, the Center for Interdisciplinary Synthesis and the Center for Global Environmental Change Research. The school also features specialized research facilities for molecular modeling, X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry, NMR research, pulsed power plasma fusion reactor research and advanced cryogenics. Physical Science faculty regularly use internationally known facilities such as the Keck Telescope, Super-Kamiokande and AMANDA neutrino detectors in Japan and Antarctica, Fermilab, Los Alamos and Brookhaven National Laboratories, the Chandra Observatory and the Jet Propulsion Lab.
News Release: 1996-01-30 Nobel Prize Winner Appointed To ARB Scientific Panel
Dr. F. sherwood rowland, the winner of the 1995 nobel Prize in Chemistry, is oneof six distinguished professionals appointed Thursday by the California Air
http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/nr013096.htm

Extractions: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER APPOINTED TO ARB SCIENTIFIC PANEL Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is one of six distinguished professionals appointed Thursday by the California Air Resources Board to a panel that reviews scientific research on air pollution. "The wealth of talented individuals who will be serving on the Board's Research Screening Committee reflects California's global leadership in environmental science and technology," ARB Chairman John D. Dunlap said. "I am gratified both by Dr. Rowland's interest in this committee and by the broad range of backgrounds and accomplishments of all the panel members. They will help ensure that regulatory decisions affecting human health and the environment are based on the very best science," Dunlap said. The six appointees will join two continuing members of the Research Screening Committee. The Air Resources Board is scheduled to appoint a ninth member in March. The committee normally meets six times per year, and members receive $100 for each day that the committee meets.
Nobel Prize In Chemistry 1995
Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 nobel Prize in of Chemistry,MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA and Professor F. sherwood rowland, Department of
http://felix.unife.it/Root/d-General/d-Chemistry/d-The-chemist/t-Nobel-prize-199
Nobel Prize Newsletter 06
From the nobel Prize Laureates. Banquet Response for the nobel Prizein Chemistry. Dec. 10, 1995. F. sherwood rowland. Your Majesties
http://www.aero.jussieu.fr/~sparc/News6/NobelPrize.html

Extractions: Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. My friends, Paul J. Crutzen and Mario Molina, and I are most grateful for the honours bestowed upon us today, for the Nobel Prize is the ultimate in recognition in the scientific world. It is immensely satisfying to us that our efforts to understand the chemistry of ozone in the atmosphere have been judged worthy of this honour. The atmosphere and its manifold changes have held fascination for men and women ever since human beings have trod this Earth. Its study played an integral role in the evolution of natural philosophy from which all of our present sciences have sprung. The scientific and technological developments of the past several decades, not available to our predecessors in past millennia, have provided the theories and tools which have now permitted us to develop a significant understanding of several atmospheric processes which affect the concentration of ozone in our stratosphere. F. Sherwood Rowland
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content visited ICTP during the past few months Dutchborn Paul J. Crutzen andAmerican-born F. sherwood rowland. In 1995, they shared the nobel Prize for
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Extractions: Math Money The ICTP Mathematics Group has received a US$27,000 grant from the European Commission (EC) and a US$23,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the cost of participation of young European and American scientists, respectively, in the Centre's School on High-Dimensional Manifold Topology. The School will be held in Trieste from 21 May to 8 June. Meanwhile, Brazil's National Research Council (CNPq) will increase its annual grant to the ICTP Mathematics Group from US$40,000 to US$50,000. The funds will be used to cover the cost of participation for Brazilian scientists in the ICTP School on Dynamical Systems (30 July to 17 August) and other Centre-based activities in mathematics and physics. Call for Proposals ICTP has issued a call for proposals from the scientific community for the organisation of schools, workshops and conferences in all fields of theoretical physics and mathematics as well as in subjects outside of those fields that make extensive use of the tools of physics and mathematics. The latter include weather and climate research, nuclear data and applications, mathematics of economics and computer science. For more detailed information, please contact proposals@ictp.trieste.it. Nuclear Matters Francesco Calogero , professor of physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza , spoke in the ICTP Main Lecture Hall on 26 February on issues related to nuclear weapons development and control. Calogero serves as Chairman of the Pugwash Council (1997-2002). Pugwash received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1995. In his lecture, Calogero noted that the number of nuclear warheads has declined from a peak of 70,000 in 1986 to about 30,000 today.
Nobel Prize Winning Chemists
nobel Prize Winning Chemists. 1994 1996 F. sherwood rowland. Thenobel Prize In Chemistry 1995. F. sherwood rowland was born on June
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Extractions: Nobel Prize Winning Chemists F. Sherwood Rowland The Nobel Prize In Chemistry 1995 F. Sherwood Rowland was born on June 28, 1927, the second of three sons, in the small central Ohio town of Delaware, the home of Ohio Wesleyan University. His accelerated academic schedule made him eligible for his final year of University in June 1945, as he approached his 18th. birthday. His coursework at Ohio Wesleyan emphasized science within a liberal arts curriculum, with more or less equal amounts of chemistry, physics and mathematics, and majors in all three fields. Willard F. Libby settled automatically and happily into his research group, and became a radiochemist working on the chemistry of radioactive atoms. His thesis concerned the chemical state of cyclotron-produced radioactive bromine atoms. The nuclear process not only creates a radioactive atom, but breaks it loose from all its chemical bonds. These highly energetic atoms exist only in very, very low concentration, but can subsequently be traced by their eventual radioactive decay. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995 together with Paul J. Crutzen and Mario J. Molina "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone".
1995 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 nobel Prizein Chemistry to Professor F. sherwood rowland, Department of Chemistry
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~owen/CHPI/IMAGES/nobel.html

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