Photo used with permission. University of Chicago alumni magazine.

F. Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work on chlorofluorocarbons and ozone in the upper atmosphere. Prof. Rowland got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1952 working under Willard Libby (who also won the Nobel prize, in 1960 for C-14 dating). While at Chicago Rowland evinced a clear interest in many areas of kinetics, both inside and outside the lab. He played basketball and baseball for the University of Chicago's team and spent two summers with a semi-pro baseball team in Canada. When I was a graduate student in the 1980s, Rowland played with our intramural softball team. His speed around the bases might have slowed a bit since his days playing semi-pro ball, but he hit the ball so far, it never mattered!