Guardian: What does the Queensland election campaign and Nobel Prize winner the late Professor Sherwood Rowland have in common?
Nothing. And also everything.
Rowlands work leading to the 1995 chemistry prize was key to understanding the ozone layer.
Rowlands co-authored 1974 paper in Nature theorised that the gases in air-conditioners and aerosols the now banned chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) - could deplete the ozone layer.
It would be over a decade later that a great big hole in the aforementioned...