CHICAGO JOURNAL

More cause for celebration

T his year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Sherwood Rowland, SM'51, PhD'52, making him the 25th U of C alumnus to win a Nobel. Rowland--along with Mario Molina of MIT and former U of C professor Paul Crutzen of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany--won for "pioneering contributions to explaining how ozone is formed and decomposes through chemical processes in the atmosphere," said the Royal Swedish Academy.

Rowland's 1974 discovery that chlorofluorocarbons were destroying the Earth's protective ozone layer was initially met with skepticism and hostility. Yet, as a direct result of his work, a worldwide ban on CFC production will go into effect next year.

Rowland, who teaches at the University of California, Irvine, won an honorary doctor of science degree from Chicago in 1989. His daughter, Ingrid Rowland, is an assistant professor of art at the U of C.

In this department:

• Robert Lucas wins Nobel Prize in Economics.
• A Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to alumnus Sherwood Rowland, SM'51, PhD'52.
• The University meets budget challenge.
• David Oxtoby will be dean of physical sciences division;
• David Schramm will direct Argonne's Office of Research Administration.
• U of C School Mathematics Project curriculum sold for $25 million.
• DOC films has a new web site.

Photographs from campus: Monsters of the Midway are back, as football runs to 8-2 record. Reynolds Club renovations create a new student social hub.

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