Irvine : UC Irvine Professor Gets Health Pioneer Award

F. Sherwood Rowland, a UC Irvine chemistry professor who has done extensive research into ozone depletion in the earth’s atmosphere, is one of two men in the United States to be awarded a Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Health this year.

The other winner this year of a Pioneering Achievement in Health Award is Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir, who helped found the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Public Health Service’s Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Rowland, 60, of Corona del Mar has been on the faculty of UC Irvine since it opened in 1965. Although still teaching, he holds the Daniel G. Aldrich chair, an endowed research position. Rowland is credited with alerting the world about the dangers of loss of ozone in the atmosphere.

Rowland and Langmuir will receive their awards at a luncheon Nov. 5 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. Derek Bok, president of Harvard University, will be the principal speaker.