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Mar 15, 2024 · Mario Molina, Mexican-born American chemist who won a share of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research in the 1970s concerning the decomposition of the ozonosphere, which shields Earth from dangerous solar radiation. Learn more about Molina’s life and work.
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Mario José Molina Henríquez (19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020) was a Mexican physical chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole , and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases.
- Mario José Molina Henríquez, 19 March 1943, Mexico City, Mexico
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Oct 13, 2020 · Mario Molina, who shared a Nobel Prize for work showing the damage that chemicals used in hair spray and refrigerators wreak on the ozone layer, which led to one of the most successful...
Mario Molina was a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who discovered that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) could destroy the ozone layer in the stratosphere. He and his mentor F. Sherwood Rowland alerted the world to the dangers of CFCs and ozone depletion, and helped to create the Montreal Protocol for reducing their use. Learn about his life, research, and legacy.
Oct 8, 2020 · The Associated Press. Mario Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry died Wednesday in his native Mexico City. His discovery of CFC's impact on the ozone layer was a key finding on...
Professor Mario Molina, a world leader in the chemistry of the stratospheric ozone layer, shares the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland for discovering the depletion of the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbon gases. He is a professor of environmental sciences at MIT and has received several awards for his scientific work on the ozone layer and climate-change processes.
Nov 6, 2020 · Mario Molina (1943–2020) Ozone-hole Nobel winner, Montreal Protocol advocate, presidents’ adviser. By. V. Faye McNeill. Credit: Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty. In the mid-1970s, Mario...
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