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Mario J. Molina


 * He was born in Mexico City ( Fact Monster) http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0922658.html
 * His birthday is March 19, 1943 ( Fact Monster) http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0922658.html
 * He earned a Nobel prize in Chemistry. ( Fact Monster) http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0922658.html
 * He and F. Sherwood Rowland discovered that the release of chlorofluorocarbon can destroy the ozone layer in the stratosphere and letting in more ultraviolet light and adding higher rates for skin cancer. (Fact Monster) http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0922658.html
 * He married Luisa Y. Tan,another chemist, in 1973. (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_J._Molina
 * The new married couple moved to Irvine, California in 1973. (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_J._Molina
 * He received the 1998 Billiard Games Medal by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society and the 1998 American Society Prize for Creative Advance in Environment Technology and Science. (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_J._Molina
 * On August 8, 2013, President Barack Obama announced Mario as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom citing in the press release. (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_J._Molina


 * Essay: Mario J. Molina-**

Mario Jose Molina was born in Mexico City and is a Mexican chemist and one of the superior persons to the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. He along with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Mario and their work in explaining the danger to the Earth’s ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases and because of that he is the first born Mexican citizen to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Mario J. Molina) ( // Mario J. Molina 2) //

Roberto Molina, a lawyer and scholar who went on to serve as chief Ambassador to Ethiopia, Australia and the Philippines in 1923 and he is the father of Mario Molina. When Mario was a kid he turned his bathroom his own laboratory, using fake, toy microscopes and chemistry props. He would always look up to his aunt Esther Molina as an idol because she was a chemist and she would help him with his experiments. (Mario J. Molina)

When Mario finished his simple studies in Mexico City and at the Institut auf dem Rosenburg in Switzerland he gained a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1965. He earned his postgraduate degree from Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, West Germany, in 1967. In 1972 he received a doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. In July of 1973 Mario married a chemist named Luisa Y. Tan. Also in 1973 they moved to Irvine, California. But later Luisa divorced him. (Mario J. Molina)

In 1974, as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Irvine, he and Rowland co-authored a paper in the journal Nature highlighting the danger of chlorofluorocarbon gases to the ozone layer in the stratosphere. At the time, chlorofluorocarbon gases were broadly used as chemical bombs and coolants. Primary interest from the academic community caused the pair to hold a press conference at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlantic City in September of 1974, in which they called for a complete refusal on further releases of CFCs into the atmosphere. Doubt from scientists and marketing manufacturers carried on, however, and a general agreement on the need for action only began to arise in 1976 with the close examination of the material of a review of the science by the National Academy of Sciences. This led to moves towards the worldwide removal of CFCs from cans of fine mist and refrigerators, and it is for this work that Molina later shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Mario J Molina)

Between 1974 and 2004 Mario diversely held posts of teaching and research at UC Irvine, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he held a combined appointment in the Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Chemistry. On July 1, of 2004 Molina linked the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, San Diego and the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (Mario J. Molina)

Mario Molina joined the lab of Professor F. Sherwood Rowland in 1973 as a postdoctoral friend. Here, Molina continued Rowland's beginning research into "hot atom" chemistry, which is the study of chemical properties of atoms with excess translational energy owing to radioactive processes. This study soon guided research into chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which had been increasing in the atmosphere. F. Sherwood and Mario had examined similar compounds to CFCs previously, and all together they grew the chlorofluorocarbons ozone exhaustion theory. Molina tried to figure out how CFCs might be ruined in the lower atmosphere, but nothing work at all. Mario and F. Sherwood knew that if CFCs was let go into the atmosphere that do not decay by other processes, they kept continuing to rise to higher altitudes until they are destroyed by solar radiation. They found out that chlorine atoms, produced by the decomposition of CFCs, usually destroy the ozone. Rowland and Molina published their findings in Nature, the film, on June 28, 1974, and also made an attempt to state their discovery outside of the scientific community, letting the policy makers and the news media know of their work. Verifying to the continuing significance of their findings, to this very day there are still laws that continue to protect the ozone layer by limiting the use of CFCs. (Mario J. Molina)

Mario J. Molina made an impact on the world with science and technology by helping the world prevent the CFC problem. He and his research helped our earth. He is a true hero and we can all make an impact like Mario J. Molina.

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