Article ID: CBB001252543

CFCs: On the 75th Anniversary of Their Introduction as Commercial Refrigerants by Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889--1944) (2005)

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On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the introduction of dichlorofluoromethane, the first of the CFCs to be used commercially as a refrigerant, this article reviews its discovery by Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889--1944) and later developments necessitated by the deleterious effect of Freons on the ozone layer. Midgley's life and other contributions are also discussed.

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Authors & Contributors
Kauffman, George B.
Thomas A. Perfetti
Zangwill, Andrew
Wilson, Jennifer
Turing, Sara
Tropp, E. A.
Concepts
Memorials; commemorations
Chemistry
Biographies
Nobel Prizes
Inventors and invention
Science and industry
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
San Francisco (California)
England
Scotland
Russia
Germany
Institutions
American Chemical Society
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
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