RIP Mario Molina, Nobel Laureate for work on ozone layer

[Ygggdrasil]

Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country’s first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), died on Wednesday at the age of 77.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-ozone-layer-prophet-dies-at-77-idUSKBN26T03Q

Molina shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Crutzen and F Sherwood Rowland "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone."

Biography on the Nobel Prize website: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1995/molina/biographical/

 

[Chestermiller]

Sorry to hear about this. I knew this guy from when I worked on the CFC-ozone issue at DuPont.