Frank Sherwood Rowland Quotes

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. June 1927 – 10. March 2012
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Frank Sherwood Rowland Quotes

“What is the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true.”

Frank Sherwood Rowland

Cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope. Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Penguin Books, 2015, page 1 ISBN 9780141981048.

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