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F. Sherwood Rowland

1927 - 2012

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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. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. F. Sherwood Rowland is the 37th most popular chemist (up from 186th in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,155th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Chemist.

F. Sherwood Rowland is most famous for his work on the ozone layer and his discovery of the harmful effects of CFCs.

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Among chemists, F. Sherwood Rowland ranks 37 out of 602. Before him are Otto Wallach, Alexander R. Todd, Otto Hahn, Robert Robinson, Henri Moissan, and Richard Willstätter. After him are Linus Pauling, Paul Karrer, Tadeusz Reichstein, Humphry Davy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, and Alfred Werner.

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Among people born in 1927, F. Sherwood Rowland ranks 9. Before him are Ferenc Puskás, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Günter Grass, Olof Palme, Gina Lollobrigida, and K. Alex Müller. After him are Peter Falk, Roger Moore, Samuel P. Huntington, Kim Young-sam, Robert Shaw, and Vladimir Komarov. Among people deceased in 2012, F. Sherwood Rowland ranks 7. Before him are Neil Armstrong, Wisława Szymborska, Oscar Niemeyer, Whitney Houston, Norodom Sihanouk, and Ray Bradbury. After him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., I. K. Gujral, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Joseph Murray, Yitzhak Shamir, and Ahmed Ben Bella.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, F. Sherwood Rowland ranks 229 out of 20,380. Before him are Cecil B. DeMille (1881), Grover Cleveland (1837), Milton Friedman (1912), Ray Bradbury (1920), Humphrey Bogart (1899), and George Lucas (1944). After him are J. D. Salinger (1919), Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), Emily Greene Balch (1867), Candice Bergen (1946), Josephine Baker (1906), and Clark Gable (1901).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, F. Sherwood Rowland ranks 6. Before him are John Stith Pemberton (1831), Edwin McMillan (1907), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), George Washington Carver (1864), and John Fenn (1917). After him are Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), John Howard Northrop (1891), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Robert S. Mulliken (1896).

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