UC San Diego Nobel laureate Mario Molina, who helped reveal damage to the ozone layer, dies at 77 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

UC San Diego Nobel laureate Mario Molina, who helped reveal damage to the ozone layer, dies at 77 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Mario Molina, Mexico’s scientist in chief

Mario Molina, who alerted the world to the atmospheric dangers of chlorofluorocarbons and helped to save the ozone layer, died yesterday at the age of 77. Molina won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that work in 1995.

Molina was an optimist at heart who dedicated himself (and his fame as Mexico’s only Nobel laureate) to clean air, particularly in his hometown of Mexico City. “The Nobel prize is of course a big honour and so on, but it's also a responsibility,” he said in a 2010 Nature profile.

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