Mario Jose Molina-Pasquel Henriquez
He and Sherwood Rowland made important discoveries on the impact of ChloroFluorCarbon (CFC) gases (formerly used as aerosol propelants and refrigerants) on the atmospheric ozone layer that protect us from the sun´s ultraviolet (UV) rays. They published an article about their discoveries in Nature magazine in 1974
He received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement granted by the John and Alice Tyler Foundation and the University of Southern California in 1983
He received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1989
He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen in 1995
He was accepted as member of Mexico's National College in 2003
He has been granted Honorary Doctorates by more than 30 universities, among them: the National University of Mexico in 1996, Yale University in 1997 and Harvard University in 2012
He has been condecorated by the Kingdom of Spain (Great Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic) in 2008, the Kingdom of Netherlands (Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau) in 2010 and the French Republic (Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor) in 2012
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