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Honorary Doctor of Science, 1995
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Born in Norwich in 1930, Joseph Farman was responsible for perhaps the biggest environmental discovery of the century - the hole in the ozone layer. After graduating from Cambridge University he was appointed Scientific Officer of the Falkland Islands Dependency Survey, forerunner of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). After two winters in the Falklands, he returned to the UK as Head of the Geophysics Section of BAS. In 1976 he returned to Cambridge as Head of Stratosphere Section at the new BAS headquarters. In response to a 1970s scare about ozone damage, the BAS had established a number of monitoring stations in Antarctica, and it was in this area that Joe focussed his attention. In 1985 he delivered his seminal article in Nature magazine detailing the nature and extent of the damage to the ozone layer over the Antarctic. It was this discovery that led to the control of CFC production across the globe.

In 1995, Dr Joe Farman was made Honorary Doctor of Science.

Areas Of Interest: Science
Faculty: Science & Technology
Citation:

"The Senate of Anglia Polytechnic University has great pleasure in awarding Dr Joe Farman an Honorary Doctor of Science.

Dr Farman has had a long and distinguished career with the British Antarctic Survey. He became interested in ozone in the Antarctic atmosphere in the early 1960s and his work on this culminated in the important paper in Nature 1995 which demonstrated depletion in the ozone over the Antarctic during the Spring. This discovery had led to much research throughout the work in seeking the mechanisms for ozone depletion and the causes are now clear and well known. Dr Farman has, since the discovery of the ozone hole, remained at the forefront of research in this area and although now partially retired, he still heads a group researching into many aspects of ozone depletion. Anglia's Environmental Science Research Centre is collaborating with the British Antarctic Survey with a particular interest in the effects of increased ultraviolet radiation resulting from ozone depletion on photosynthesis in Antarctic plants.

The Honorary Doctorate of Science is awarded by the Senate in recognition of Dr Farman's contribution to atmospheric science, and in particular for the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole and the understanding of the physics and chemistry of stratospheric ozone depletion."

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