Mario Molina
1943 – 2020 · Mexico · Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995
Proved CFCs destroy ozone; his work produced the Montreal Protocol.
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Inherited from3
- Fritz Haber
1868 – 1934 · Chemistry
Industrial atmospheric chemistry created the planetary side-effects Molina later measured.
- Marie Tharp
1920 – 2006 · Biology, Astronomy
Tharp's ocean-floor mapping helped make planetary-scale geophysics a policy science.
- Rachel Carson
1907 – 1964 · Biology, Literature
The atmospheric-harm argument Carson made for pesticides Molina made for CFCs.
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