Remembering Scientist Who Discovered Ozone Hole

Monday, 20 May 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The New York Times has an obituary in today’s paper for the man who discovered the hole in the ozone layer. Joseph Farman died over the weekend at the age of 82. Farman began taking ground-level readings in Antartica in 1957. He continued to do so for the next 25 years, despite pushback from his superiors who said the research wasn’t valuable. But it was his “commitment to the prosaic first principles of data collection” that convinced the world of its ozone problem.

SOURCE: New York Times