The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series Presents:

Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland

"The 21st Century Atmosphere:
Changes and Consequences"

Monday, September 30, 2002
7:00 - 8:00 P.M.
Mahan Hall, US Naval Academy
Open to the Public

ABSTRACT: As the 21st Century begins, several important alterations in the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere are well under way, with consequences which will be widely felt over the coming decades. Many of these can be grouped under three headings: depletion of stratospheric ozone, increased trapping of terrestrial infrared radiation with consequent warming of Earth's surface, and rising levels of surface pollution especially in urban environments. In all three instances, the major changes are occurring because of additional gases released to the atmosphere through the activities of the global population.

F. Sherwood Rowland

Professor Rowland is the Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Mario Molina and Paul Crutzen for their work on atmospheric chemistry. Professor Rowland has an interesting and diverse background having served 14 months in the Navy (obtaining the rating of Specialist (athletics) 3rd Class) and he received his PhD training as a radiochemist from the University of Chicago where many of the Manahattan Project physicist and chemist had gone. While at the University of Chicago he was trained as a radiochemist by Bill Libby (1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) and took classes from distinguished chemists and physicists such as Harold Urey (1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Edward Teller, Henry Taube (1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Maria Mayer (1963 Nobel Prize in Physics), and Enrico Fermi (1938 Nobel Prize in Physics). It was later in life (the early 1970s) that he switched the focus of his research to environmental issues.

The Michelson Lecture Series

The Michelson Lecture Series, sponsored by the United States Naval Academy Class of 1969, commemorates the achievements of Albert A. Michelson, Naval Academy graduate and instructor, and the first American to receive a Nobel Prize. Each year since 1981, a distinguished scientist has come to the Naval Academy to present the Michelson Lecture. Past lecturers have included Admiral Grace Hopper and Nobel Laureate James A. Watson.

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