The advice that I would give is try to find something that you like. Try to devote your energies to being very good at it. Try to achieve excellence. Don’t necessarily have as a goal success or getting prizes or whatever, but just doing very good work. And work hard. Keep working at it. Be patient. Realize that you don’t always see the benefits of what you’re doing, short-term. But in the end, the activities that I do, for example, scientific research, can be extremely rewarding. It’s really a very fascinating career.
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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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So achievement, to me, is something that just comes with this attitude of doing your work the best you can in a passionate way. It’s not something that you have to expect. It’s something that’s a consequence of what you do, but it’s certainly important.
Certainly not. As a young child, I remember just dreaming about the Nobel Prize, but that was just a dream. It’s not something I would have ever thought was possible for me.
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