Mario Molina

✶March 19, 1943

†October 7, 2020

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About their life

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez 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. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the third Mexican-born person to receive a Nobel prize.

Mexican chemist (1943–2020)

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Biography from the article Mario Molina on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.