Marion was born in Mexico on March 19, 1943 to Roberto Molina Pasquel, and Leonor Henríquez (seen in the picture celebrating his birthday in early 1950s)
Mario Malina was married to Lusia Tan (m. 1973; div. 2005) and later to Guadalupe Alvarez in 2006
National Autonomous University of Mexico (BS) University of Freiburg (MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
“Finding out for myself, for the first time, how something works is really an enormous driving force.”
He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research that showed how chemicals in hair spray and other products could cause grave environmental damage
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013) Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1983) – Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1987)
During 1974, Mario Molina (right) and Sherwood Rowland (left) co-authored a paper showcasing that chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases are detrimental to the ozone present in the atmosphere
Mario Molina breathed his last on 7 October 2020 in Mexico City, Mexico