biography
| name: |
Molina, Mario (Jose)
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pronunciation:
[moleena]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Mexico City, Mexico. After completing his studies in Mexico and Germany, he moved to the USA (1968) to work on his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley (1972). He joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine (1973–9), went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1983–9), and then joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989). His major work was to study the effect on the Earth's upper atmosphere of man-made compounds, particularly the chlorofluorocarbons that he warned were depleting the ozone layer. For this work he shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
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