# Mexican Nobel Prize winner scientist Mario Molina passes away.
Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country’s first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), died on last Wednesday 07 October at the age of 77.
He was born on 19th March 1943 in Mexico City, Molina was a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and took postgraduate degrees at universities in Germany and California in US.
In 1995, Molina, Frank Sherwood Rowland (US) and Paul Crutzen (Netherland) were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work showing how CFCs used in spray cans were destroying the ozone layer.
Molina worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), a key center of learning on phenomena linked to climate change.
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