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19/03/1943 Mexican chemist Mario J. Molina is born

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IDEaS- Nobel Laureate Mario J. Molina

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Journal Interview with Mario Molina, 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Winner | Journal Interview

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ozone hole

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How CFC's Deplete the Ozone Layer

He is one of the people who discovered the ozone hole. Molina joined the lab of American chemist Sherwood Rowland in 1973. They were both interested study of chemical properties of atoms with, and only with, excess translational energy owing to radioactive processes. In 1974 they described the process of ozone breakdown catalyzed by chlorofluorocarbons.
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