Frank Sherwood Rowland:
Frank Sherwood Rowland is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
June 28, 1927 in Delaware, Ohio
Claim to Fame:
Rowland is an American chemist who shares the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Jozef Crutzen and Mario J. Molina for their research on the ozone layer. Rowland and Molina discovered that man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were a major contributor to the destruction of ozone in the atmosphere. Crutzen's contribution was the discovery that nitrogen oxide contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer. Their discoveries led to the banning of CFCs in general use.
