F. Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel Prize-winning chemist. He was 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 role in ozone depletion.

He won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Mario Molina and Paul J. Crutzen. Rowland worked as a professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Rowland died on March 10, 2012 in Newport Beach, California from problems caused by Parkinson's disease, aged 84.

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