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UCI loses the legendary F. Sherwood Rowland

Written on March 11, 2012.

His research is credited with saving Earth’s critical ozone layer. UC Irvine founding professor F. Sherwood Rowland, who patiently endured years of criticism and then won a Nobel Prize for showing that chlorofluorocarbons could destroy the Earth’s ozone layer, died Saturday, March 10, at his home in Corona del Mar of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 84. “It is with a heavy heart that I am writing to tell you that Sherry Rowland died yesterday afternoon. After spending a peaceful...

New Exhibit on Sherwood Rowland’s Ground-Breaking Research

Written on December 12, 2011.

UCI Libraries The UCI Libraries new exhibit, Discovery of a Lifetime: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Ozone Layer, is now on display in the Langson Library Muriel Ansley Reynolds Exhibit Gallery. This exciting new exhibit celebrates the research contributions of world-renowned atmospheric scientist F. Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, 1995 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, and UCI Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry in Earth System Science. Dr. Rowland generously donated his professional...

That Deathly Ozone Hole Gets Damn Huge Again

Written on September 15, 2010.

Jesus Diaz, GIZMODO This video—taken by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument onboard NASA’s Aura satellite—shows the ozone hole as it reaches its yearly maximum, 23 years after the ban of chlorofluorocarbons, once the heart of all fridges and hair spray cans worldwide. Today is the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, which marks the day of the ban: September 16, 1987. The effects of chlorofluorocarbons and other chlorine and bromine-containing compounds are...

Working together, we can change history

Written on August 29, 2010.

The China Post news staff, The China Post In 1973 two chemists working at the University of California, Irvine, began studying the effects of chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs. These chemicals had been used for decades as agents in the production of Styrofoam and acted as the main refrigerants in air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers. CFCs were used in hair spray, perfumes and many more industrial and household items. Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina found that chemicals...

Campus efforts help clear the air

Written on June 23, 2009.

UC Irvine cuts greenhouse gas emissions from the (efficiently irrigated) ground up. In ways that have altered nearly every aspect of campus life, UC Irvine has reduced the energy needed to keep the place humming, serving as a model for other large organizations seeking to shrink their carbon footprints. “Environmental stewardship at UCI began long before we even heard the words ‘green,’ ‘LEED,’ or ‘carbon-neutrality,’” says Wendell Brase, administrative & business services vice...

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UCI loses the legendary F. Sherwood Rowland

New Exhibit on Sherwood Rowland’s Ground-Breaking Research

That Deathly Ozone Hole Gets Damn Huge Again

Working together, we can change history

Campus efforts help clear the air