overall: 10 3/8 in x 5 1/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 13.0175 cm
Object Name:
Air Canister
Date made:
1986
Description:
Stainless steel cannister with pressure valve on top, and a round paper label that reads “Nupro Company / Willoughby, Ohio.” Frank Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012), the donor, used this for quarterly air sample collection missions for NASA. A professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, and a 1995 Nobel laureate, Rowland found that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
Ref: “F. Sherwood Rowland, 84, Dies; Cited Aerosol’s Danger,” New York Times (March 13, 2012), p. A17.
