Topic: Air Pollution and Control

Lecturer: Prof. Mario J. Molina

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Member of National Academy of Sciences, USA

Member of the Institute of Medicine, USA

Member of the National College of Mexico

Time: 9:00-10:30 am, 25 Sept, 2011

Venue: Academic Hall of Chinese Academy of Sciences (15 Beiyitiao, Zhongguancun, Haidian District )

Prof. Mario J. Molina

Prof. Molina was born in Mexico in 1943. He earned a bachelor's degree at National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1965, a postgraduate degree from the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany, in 1967 and a doctoral degree in Chemistry from University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Now he works at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego and the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Prof. Molina 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 (CFCs).