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ROWLAND, Frank Sherwood (1927 – 2012)

1927 – 2012

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1974 CE

#8157

Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone.

Rowland and his post-doctoral student, Molina, suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), could reach the stratosphere where they would be dissociated by UV light, releasi…