The Mario Molina Center, a leading research institute in Mexico, carries on his work to create a more sustainable world.Google's doodle on June 13 celebrated the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy tournament. On October 7, 2020, Molina died aged 77 of a heart attack in Mexico. The groundbreaking research became the foundation of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty that successfully banned the production of nearly 100 ozone-depleting chemicals.ĥ.
He and his co-researchers published their findings in the Nature journal, which later won them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995.
He was one of the first to discover that chlorofluorocarbons were breaking down the ozone and causing ultraviolet radiation to reach the Earth's surface.Ĥ. Molina began researching how synthetic chemicals impact Earth’s atmosphere. After completing his studies, he moved to the United States to conduct postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).ģ.
He went earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and an advanced degree from the University of Freiburg in Germany. Nothing could compare to the joy of watching tiny organisms glide across his toy microscope, wrote Google while dedicating the doodle.Ģ. As a child, he was so passionate about science that he turned his bathroom into a makeshift laboratory. Mario Molina was born on March 19, 1943, in Mexico City. Mario Molina.Īlso Read| Google celebrates International women's day with a doodle Today's Google doodle dedicated to Mexican chemist Dr. Molina was one of the researchers who exposed how chemicals deplete Earth’s ozone shield, which is vital to protecting humans, plants, and wildlife from harmful ultraviolet light,” noted Google. “A co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dr. Mario Molina, a Mexican chemist who pioneered the task of convincing governments to come together to save the planet’s ozone layer. Google doodle on Sunday celebrated the 80th birth anniversary of Dr.
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