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Also known as Mario J Molina, Mario José Molina, Mario J. Molina

Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)

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Mario J. Molina was a male person from the United States. He was affiliated with the Centro Mario Molina. His professional output included five works indexed in Crossref and seven works in the Open Library. His notable publications include *El cambio climático. Causas, efectos y soluciones*, *World Atlas of Atmospheric Pollution*, *Pabellón de Arteaga en imágenes*, and *Culturas y naturaleza sin fronteras*.

Molina was recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Chemistry collection. He received one Nobel Prize. His work is referenced by 336 other encyclopedia articles. He was born on March 19, 1943, and died on October 7, 2020. A musical artist named Mario Molina exists, with 15 listeners and 63 playcounts on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • El cambio climático. Causas, efectos y soluciones
  • El cambio climático. Causas, efectos y soluciones
  • World Atlas of Atmospheric Pollution
  • Pabellón de Arteaga en imágenes
  • Culturas y naturaleza sin fronteras

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1943-06-22

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15
Total plays
63

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1995

    for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone

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Encyclopedic overview

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez (19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020) was a Mexican physical chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the third Mexican-born person to receive a Nobel prize.

In his career, Molina held research and teaching positions at University of California, Irvine, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, San Diego, and the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Molina was also Director of the Mario Molina Center for Energy and Environment in Mexico City. Molina was a climate policy advisor to the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mario Molina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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