Frank Sherwood Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, whose research focused on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to depletion of the ozone layer, for which he shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Mario Molina and Paul Crutzen.
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Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927, March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.
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