American professor F. Sherwood Rowland, left, receives the Nobel prize for chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, right, at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, in December 1995. Rowland, the chemist who sounded the alarm on the depletion of Earth's ozone layer, died Saturday, March 10, 2012, at his home in Corona Del Mar, Calif. at age 84. He was among three scientists awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for chemistry for discovering that a byproduct of aerosol sprays, deodorants and other consumer products could destroy the earth’s atmospheric blanket. (AP Photo/Eric Roxfelt, File)
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