Laureate

F. Sherwood Rowland

1927–2012 · United States · Male

Awards

  1. 1989

    Japan Prize — Environmental Science and Technology

    Earth Science

    for the studies on the mechanisms of stratospheric ozone depletion by chlorofluorocarbons.

  2. 1995

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

    Chemistry

    for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone