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Mario Molina

Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995

Mexico · 1943–2020

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Atmospheric chemist who, with F. Sherwood Rowland, showed in 1974 that chlorofluorocarbons deplete stratospheric ozone. Shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Rowland and Paul Crutzen, becoming the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel in a scientific category. He later worked on urban air quality in Mexico City.

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Question What makes you want to keep learning? Attention & the world read 8 other answers →

I have also benefited from teaching; as I try to explain my views to students with critical and open minds, I find myself continually being challenged to go back and rethink ideas. I now see teaching and research as complementary, mutually reinforcing activities.

Recorded Laureate-written autobiography, provided by the laureate in November 2007, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 November 2007 source ↗

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