Mario Molina:
Mario Molina is an Mexican-American chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 19, 1943 in Mexico City, Mexico
Claim to Fame:
Molina is an Mexican-American chemist who shares the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Jozef Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland for their research on the ozone layer. Maria and Rowland discovered that man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were a major contributor to the destruction of ozone in the atmosphere. Crutzen's contribution was the discovery that nitrogen oxide contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer. Their discoveries led to the banning of CFCs in general use.
