Nobel laureate who helped save the ozone layer dies

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Nobel laureate who helped save the ozone layer dies

Mario Molina, a chemist whose work on the ozone layer earned him a
Nobel Prize in 1995, died yesterday in Mexico City. He was 77.

Molina's family announced his death in a brief statement through the
institute that carried his name. It did not give a cause of death.

Molina's work was crucial to enacting the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in 1987, and it made him one
of the most consequential scientists of the past 50 years.

"He's one of the single most important contributors to climate
protection in world history," said Paul Bledsoe, a former climate
adviser in the White House under former President Bill Clinton who
worked with Molina in various capacities over the years.

Molina and American scientist Frank Sherwood Rowland published a paper
in 1974 that found chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), chemicals used in a
variety of products, were destroying the ozone layer.

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