James Vary, IITAP, (515) 294-3555 Skip Derra, News Service,
(515) 294-4917 NOBEL LAUREATE TO TALK ABOUT OZONE DEPLETION AND
SMOG AMES, Iowa -- Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland, a well-know
authority on atmospheric chemistry and one of the first
scientists to warn the public about the environmental dangers of
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), will give a talk on Feb. 15, at 8
p.m., in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. The topic of
Rowland's talk will be "Two Atmospheric Problems: Stratospheric
Ozone Depletion, and Smog at Earth's Surface" The talk is part
of a University Lecture Series on Science and Technology for
Sustainable Development. Rowland, along with Mario Molina,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and Paul
Crutzen, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany,
were awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in
atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and
decomposition of Earth's ozone layer. Rowland's work focused on
the effects CFCs have on the ozone