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Date of Birth:March 19, 1943

Status: Alive; age 70

Occupation: Chemist 

Mario Molina is the son of Roberto Molina Pasquel, a lawyer and 

diplomat who went on to serve as chief Ambassador to Ethiopia, 

Australia, and the Philippines in 1923, and Leonor Henriquez de 

Molina. As a child, he turned a bathroom into his own laboratory, 

using toy microscopes and chemistry sets.His role model was his 

aunt, Esther Molina, who was also a chemist and who also 

helped him with his experiments.

After completing his basic studies in Mexico City and at the 

Institut auf dem Rosenberg in Switzerland, he earned a 

bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at the National 

Autonomous University of Mexico in 1965. He earned his 

postgraduate degree from the Albert Ludwigs University of 

Freiburg, West Germany, in 1967. He earned a doctoral degree 

in Chemistry from University of California, Berkley in 1972 where 

he met and later married his first wife, Luisa Tan. He is currently 

a professor of atmospheric chemistry at the Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology- not to mention happily married to his 

second wife, Guadalupe Alvarez.

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