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Oral History Interview with F. Sherwood Rowland
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Topics and people mentioned include: early childhood and family; love of playing sports; Navy service during World War II; education at Ohio Wesleyan; graduate school at the University of Chicago; early career interests in radiochemistry and hot atom chemistry; work at University of Kansas in trillium, tracers, photochemistry, and radio gas chromatography; groundbreaking research in chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere; comment on global climate change. Oral history interview with F. Sherwood Rowland, 2007. Interviewed by Jeffrey Gaffney. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 4 hrs., tape 1 side B blank) : analog, mono + transcript (35 pgs.). AMS 200-223; one physical version (one master). Forms part of American Meteorological Society Oral History Project.