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F. Sherwood Rowland, Cited Aerosols' Danger, Is Dead at 84
Description: F. Sherwood Rowland, whose discovery in 1974 of the danger that aerosols posed to the ozone layer was initially met with disdain but who was ultimately vindicated with the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died on Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar, Calif. He was 84. [Source: New York Times]
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/science/earth/f-sherwood-rowland-84-dies-raised-alarm-over-aerosols.html?_r=1
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Source: New York Times
Publish Date: 3/12/2012
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