Mario Molina | Biography, Nobel Prize, & Facts
Mario Molina, in full Mario José Molina, (born March 19, 1943, Mexico City, Mexico—died October 7, 2020, Mexico City), Mexican-born American chemist who was jointly awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with chemists F. Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen, for research in the 1970s concerning the decomposition of the ozonosphere, which shields Earth from dangerous solar radiation. The discoveries of Molina and Rowland—that some industrially manufactured gases deplete the ozone layer—led to an international movement in the late 20th century to limit the widespread use of chlor...