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Article: MIT scientist shares Nobel for identifying ozone damage
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 12, 1995
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Mario Molina of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
two other scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry
yesterday for ground-breaking work showing that man-made chemicals
were destroying the Earth's protective ozone layer. It is the first
time the prize has recognized environmental research.
Their work, begun in the '70s, was greeted skeptically at first
but was confirmed more than a decade later, providing the first clear
evidence that human activity can have dramatic effects on the
environment on a global scale.
Molina, along with two chemists, F. Sherwood Rowland of the
University of California-Irvine and Paul Crutzen of the Max Planck
Institute for Chemistry in ...