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New Delhi: Today, Google celebrating Dr. Mario Molina 80th birthday with a special Doodle. He successfully persuaded governments to come together to save the planet’s ozone layer. Co-recipient of the 1995Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dr. Molina was one of the researchers who explained how the chemicals destroy the Earth’s ozone layer, which is necessary to protect humans, plants and wildlife from harmful ultraviolet light.
Some Top points to know about Dr. Mario Molina:
-Dr. Molina was born on March 19, 1943 in Mexico City. As a child, he was so obsessed with science that he converted his bathroom into a makeshift laboratory. Nothing can compare to the joy of watching tiny creatures move about on your toy microscope, wrote Google while dedicating the doodle.
-Dr. Molina holds a graduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an advanced degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
-After completing his studies, he moved to the US to do postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
-In the early 1970s, Dr. Molina studied how synthetic chemicals affect the Earth’s atmosphere. Started researching on this.
-He was one of the first to discover that chlorofluorocarbons (a chemical found in air conditioners, aerosol sprays, and others) were breaking down ozone and allowing ultraviolet rays to reach Earth’s surface.
-He and his fellow researchers published their findings in the journal Nature, which later won them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The groundbreaking research became the foundation of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty that successfully banned the production of nearly 100 ozone-depleting chemicals.
