F. Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012), Atmospheric Scientist <i>Par Excellence</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sherwood (“Sherry”) Rowland (1927–2012), whose discovery with Mario J. Molina of the danger that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) posed to the earth’s ozone layer was initially met with disdain but was ultimately vindicated with the award of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone,” died on March 10, 2012. Our article discusses Rowland’s personal and professional life, achievements, and personality, with an emphasis on his Nobel–winning work that is widely viewed as a vindication of environmental science, long belittled by mainstream science. Rowland and Molina alerted the world to the action of the then widely used chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, led to the Montréal Protocol, and focused attention on global environmental problems.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".