NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mario J. Molina

MJ Molina and FS Rowland "Stratospheric Sink for Chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine Atom-Catalysed Destruction of Ozone" Nature 249 (28 June 1974):810-2 doi:10.1038/249810a0

An Environmental Fairy Tale: the Molina-Rowland Chemical Equations and the CFC problem. Aisling Irwin in It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science, edited by Graham Farmelo (Granta, 2002)

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William Lipscomb (1976) • Ilya Prigogine (1977) • Peter D. Mitchell (1978) • Herbert C. Brown / Georg Wittig (1979) • Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger (1980) • Kenichi Fukui / Roald Hoffmann (1981) • Aaron Klug (1982) • Henry Taube (1983) • Robert Merrifield (1984) • Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle (1985) • Dudley R. Herschbach / Yuan T. Lee / John Polanyi (1986) • Donald J. Cram / Jean-Marie Lehn / Charles J. Pedersen (1987) • Johann Deisenhofer / Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel (1988) • Sidney Altman / Thomas Cech (1989) • Elias Corey (1990) • Richard R. Ernst (1991) • Rudolph A. Marcus (1992) • Kary Mullis / Michael Smith (1993) • George Olah (1994) • Paul J. Crutzen / Mario J. Molina / Frank Rowland (1995) • Robert Curl / Harold Kroto / Richard Smalley (1996) • Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian Skou (1997) • Walter Kohn / John Pople (1998) • Ahmed Zewail (1999) • Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa (2000) This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ... William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. ... Ilya Prigogine (January 25, 1917 â€“ May 28, 2003) was a Belgian physicist and chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. ... Peter Dennis Mitchell (September 29, 1920â€“April 10, 1992)[1] was a British biochemist who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis. ... Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 â€“ December 19, 2004) was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 (along with Georg Wittig) for his work with organoboranes. ... Georg Wittig (June 16, 1897 in Berlin (Germany) - August 26, 1987) was a german chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides. ... Paul Berg, born June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. ... Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American physicist, biochemist,and molecular biology pioneer. ... Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS (born 13 August 1918) is an English biochemist and a two time Nobel laureate in chemistry. ... Kenichi Fukui (ç¦äº•è¬™ä¸€ Fukui Kenichi, October 4, 1918 â€“ January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. ... Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937 as Roald Safran --- Hoffmann is the surname of his stepfather) is an American theoretical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin. ... Sir Aaron Klug, OM, FRS (born 11 August 1926 in Zelvas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes. ... Professor Henry Taube, Ph. ... Robert Bruce Merrifield (July 15, 1921 â€“ May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984. ... Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman (born February 14, 1917) is a world renowned American mathematician and Nobel laureate. ... Jerome Karle is an American physical chemist. ... Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932), a chemist and Frank B. Baird Jr. ... Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: æŽé å“² Pinyin: LÇ YuÇŽnzhÃ©, Wade-Giles: LiÂ³ YÃ¼anÂ³-cheÂ²) (born November 19, 1936) is a famous chemist. ... John Charles Polanyi (born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist. ... Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 â€“ June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for â€œsynthesizing three-dimensional molecules that could mimic the functioning of natural molecules. ... Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. ... Charles J. Pedersen (October 3, 1904â€“October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers. ... Johann Deisenhofer (born September 30, 1943) is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the structure of a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis. ... Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. ... Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate. ... Sidney Altman Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is a Canadian-born molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. ... Thomas R. Cech was born on December 8, 1947 in Chicago. ... Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. ... Richard Robert Ernst (born August 14, 1933) is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. ... Rudolph A. Marcus in 2005 Rudolph Rudy Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electron transfer. ... Kary Banks Mullis, Ph. ... Michael Smith, CC, OBC (April 26, 1932 â€“ October 4, 2000) was a British-born Canadian biochemist who was the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. ... George Andrew Olah (born May 22, 1927, Budapest, Hungary, as OlÃ¡h GyÃ¶rgy) is a Hungarian-born American chemist. ... Paul J. Crutzen (December 3rd, 1933 - ) is a Dutch nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist. ... Frank Sherwood Rowland (born June 28, 1927) is a Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. ... Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. ... Harold Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October 1939) is an English chemist and one of the winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... Richard Errett Smalley Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 â€“ October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. ... Paul Delos Boyer (born July 31, 1918) is an American biochemist. ... John Ernest Walker (born January 7, 1941) is an English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. ... Jens Christian Skou (born October 8, 1918) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. ... A banner on a light pole in the University of California, Santa Barbara, commemorating that Walter Kohn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. ... Sir John Anthony Pople, FRS, (October 31, 1925 â€“ March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. ... Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: Ø£ØÙ…Ø¯ ØØ³Ù† Ø²ÙˆÙŠÙ„) (born February 26, 1946 in Damanhur, Egypt) is an Egyptian American scientist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. ... Alan Jay Heeger (born 22 January 1936 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a United States chemistry and physics academic and Nobel Prize winner. ... Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ, (born April 24, 1927) is a chemist. ... Professor Hideki Shirakawa ç™½å· è‹±æ¨¹ Shirakawa Hideki, born in Tokyo on August 20, 1936) is a Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of conductive polymers together with Alan J. Heeger and Alan G MacDiarmid. ...

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