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The Chemistry That Won a Nobel and Then Got Banned

Thomas Midgley Jr.'s CFCs won a Nobel Prize before scientists discovered they were destroying Earth's ozone layer. A cautionary tale of chemistry's unintended consequences.

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Thomas Midgley Jr. received the Priestley Medal in 1941, the American Chemical Society's highest honor, for his contributions to chemistry. The significance of his contributions has been dramatically

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