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Date of Birth
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19-March-1943
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Place of Birth
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Mexico City
(Mexico, Greater Mexico City)
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Nationality
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Mexico
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Also know as
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Mario Molina, Mario José Molina-Pasquel HenrÃquez
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Profession
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Engineer, Chemist, Professor
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Mario José Molina-Pasquel HenrÃquez is a Mexican chemist and one of the most prominent precursors to the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. He was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earth's ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases, becoming the first Mexican-born citizen to ever receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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