Joe Farman

Joseph Farman
Born(1930-08-07)7 August 1930
Died11 May 2013(2013-05-11) (aged 82)[1][2]
NationalityBritish
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Cambridge
Known forDiscovery of Antarctic Ozone hole
AwardsCBE (2000)
The Chree Medal and Prize (2001)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
British Antarctic Survey
British Army

Joseph Charles Farman CBE (7 August 1930 – 11 May 2013) was a British geophysicist who worked for the British Antarctic Survey. Together with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin, he published the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica,[3] having used Dobson ozone spectrophotometers. Their results were first published in May 1985.[4]

  1. ^ "Joe Farman". The Daily Telegraph. 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2023.
  2. ^ Vitello, Paul (19 May 2013). "Joseph Farman, 82, Is Dead; Discovered Ozone Hole (Published 2013)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022.
  3. ^ Pyle, John; Harris, Neil (2013). "Joe Farman (1930–2013) Discoverer of the ozone hole". Nature. 498 (7455): 435. Bibcode:2013Natur.498..435P. doi:10.1038/498435a. PMID 23803837.
  4. ^ Farman, J. C.; Gardiner, B. G.; Shanklin, J. D. (13 May 1985). "Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction". Nature. 315 (6016): 207–210. doi:10.1038/315207a0 – via www.nature.com.