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F. Sherwood Rowland, Ph.D., winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer, will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Oct. 29 and 30.

F. Sherwood Rowland, Ph.D., winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer, will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Oct. 29 and 30.

Rowland comes to UNC for the fourth annual Carolina Climate Change Seminar.

He will give a public talk, “Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change,” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday Oct. 29 in Carroll Hall auditorium, followed by a reception. He will give a technical talk, “The CFC-Ozone Story,” at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 30 in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium. Both talks are free.

Rowland’s best-known work is the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other man-made gasses contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer, which protects living organisms from UV solar radiation. These findings, for which he shared the Nobel Prize with Paul Crutzen of The Netherlands and Mario Molina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brought about international changes in the chemical industry.

CFC-based aerosols have been banned in the United States and other industrialized countries since 1978.

Rowland has been a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine since 1964.

The climate change seminar is hosted by the department of geological sciences and supported by the UNC chancellor’s office, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for the Environment and the department of marine sciences.

For more information on Rowland, go to: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1995/rowland-autobio.html

College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu
News Services contact: Patric Lane, (919) 962-8596, patric_lane@unc.edu

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