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The recent death of Sherwood Rowland, whose work helped us avoid one of the world’s great environmental disasters, should be a reminder that we can’t afford to ignore the lessons of chemistry. David Rotman, Technology Review The work and life of F. Sherwood Rowland, a chemist at the University of California, Irvine, who died last weekend, should provide ample inspiration for those now grappling with the debate over climate change. Rowland is best known for figuring out, along...

Green Blogs, The New York Times Accolades flow in for F. Sherwood Rowland, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry two decades after reporting that chlorofluorocarbons were destroying the ozone layer. He died on Saturday at age 84. “He saved the world from a major catastrophe,” a dean at the University of California, Irvine, says. [The Christian Science Monitor] Japan ends its whaling season in the Antarctic after meeting less than a third of its annual target — 266 minke whales and one fin...

Paul Whitefield, Los Angeles Times It’s not often you can say that someone saved the world — and mean it literally. But that’s the case with F. Sherwood Rowland. The UC Irvine chemist, who died Saturday at 85, was one of three scientists who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, The Times reported, for their work “explaining how chlorofluorocarbons, ubiquitous substances once used in an array of products from spray deodorant to industrial solvents, could destroy...

F. Sherwood Rowland dies at 84; work led to phaseout of chemicals Gary Robbins, U-T San Diego Nobel laureate F. Sherwood Rowland, who discovered that a class of common household chemicals was destroying the ozone layer and endangering the planet, died Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 84. Rowland’s death was announced Sunday by his home campus, UC Irvine, a school he helped to build at the same time UC San Diego was being prepared...