Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina dedicated to ozone research before his death

　　Chinanews, October 8th, according to the Russian Satellite Network, on the 7th local time, Nobel Prize winner and Mexican scientist Mario Molina died in Mexico City, Mexico, at the age of 77.

　　According to reports, Molina’s alma mater, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, announced the news on social media that day.

　　According to the report, Molina had been studying the atmospheric ozone hole during his lifetime. Together with the American chemist Sherwood Rowland, he discovered that chlorofluorocarbons would destroy the stratospheric ozone that protects the earth from the sun’s ultraviolet rays. This led to the ban on these substances. The 1985 Vienna Convention and the 1987 Montreal Protocol.

　　Molina won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his research in atmospheric chemistry with Sherwood and the Dutch chemist Paul Kruzen, especially in the formation and destruction of the ozone layer.