Air Canister
date: label: Date made
content: 1986
name: label: maker
content: Polar Ware Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Stainless steel cannister with pressure valve on top, and a round paper label that reads “Nupro Company / Willoughby, Ohio.” Frank Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012), the donor, used this for quarterly air sample collection missions for NASA. A professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, and a 1995 Nobel laureate, Rowland found that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
label: Description
content: Ref: “F. Sherwood Rowland, 84, Dies; Cited Aerosol’s Danger,” New York Times (March 13, 2012), p. A17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of F. S(herwood) Rowland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0134.01
label: accession number
content: 2001.0134
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Air Canister
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 5 1/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 13.0175 cm