Mexican Nobel Laureate Mario Molina passes away at 77

Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who won Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995, has passed away. He was 77.
Molina was the first Mexican to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
In 1995, Molina, Frank Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work showing how chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used in spray cans were destroying the ozone layer.
In 2008, he was appointed a scientific adviser to the then U.S. President Barack Obama.