Google celebrates 80th birthday of Mexican chemist Dr Mario Molina with Doodle | TOI Original

Google celebrated the 80th birth anniversary of Dr Mario Molina with a Doodle on March 19. Dr Mario Molina was a Mexican chemist who pioneered the task of convincing governments to come together to save the planet’s ozone layer. He was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the researchers who exposed how chemicals deplete Earth’s ozone shield, which is vital to protecting humans, plants, and wildlife from harmful ultraviolet light. Dr Molina was born on this day in 1943 in Mexico City. As a child, he was so passionate about science that he turned his bathroom into a makeshift laboratory. Nothing could compare to the joy of watching tiny organisms glide across his toy microscope.