The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.


	Paul Crutzen Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Germany	Mario Molina Dept. of Earth Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences & Dept. of Chemistry, MIT	Sherwood Rowland Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of California Irvine, USA

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