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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995

Further reading

Information about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 (press release), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Graedel, T.E. and Crutzen, P.J., Atmosphere, Climate and Change. Scientific American Library, 1995.

Gribbin, J., The hole in the sky, Corgi Books, London, 1998.

Rowland, F.S. and Molina, M.J., Ozone depletion: 20 years after the alarm, Chemical and Engineering News 72, 8-13, 1994.

Scientific assessement of ozone depletion 1994, WMO Report 37, World Metereological Organization and United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, 1995.

Toon, O.B. and Turco, R.P., Polar Stratospheric clouds and ozone depletion, Scientific American 264, 68-74, 1991.

Wayne, R.P. Chemistry of Atmospheres, Oxford Science Publications, 1993.

The changing ozone layer, World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment Programme, 1995.

  

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