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Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez[a] (19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020) [7] 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 ...
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.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 was awarded jointly to Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"
Oct 7, 2020 · The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 was awarded jointly to Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"
Mario Molina (1943–2020) was the first to realize that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) could destroy ozone. In the two decades following his discovery, he and his mentor became voices alerting the world to the danger of CFCs and ozone depletion. Their warnings often fell on deaf ears.
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 talks about what made him interested in science; his sources of inspiration (4:07); his work with F. Sherwood Rowland (8:36); his current work in air quality and global change issues (15:40); and what the Nobel Prize has meant to him (29:52).
Oct 8, 2020 · 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 climate...
Renowned atmospheric chemist and MIT Institute Professor Emeritus Mario Molina, who discovered that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) had the potential to destroy the ozone layer in the Earth’s stratosphere, has died at the age of 77.
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 Molina...
