Mario Molina

José Mario Molina Pasquel y Henríquez (1943–2020), a chemist born in Mexico City, shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland for showing that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) destroy the ozone layer. His work fed into the Montreal Protocol, which phased out CFCs.

He is one of three Mexican Nobel laureates, with Alfonso García Robles (Peace, 1982) and Octavio Paz (Literature, 1990).