Obituaries - Dec. 30, 1987

Noye Monroe Johnson, Discoverer of Acid Rain

Noye Monroe Johnson, 57, a Dartmouth College geology professor who helped discover acid rain. In the 1960s, Johnson and two other Dartmouth professors, F. Herbert Bormann, now of Yale University, and Gene Likens, now of Cornell University, analyzed drainage from watersheds and discovered high levels of sulfates and concluded the chemical came from the atmosphere via a phenomenon they called acid rain. In Hanover, N.H., on Sunday of cancer.