NEWS SERVICES 210 Pittsboro Street, Campus Box 6210 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-6210 (919) 962-2091 FAX: (919) 962-2279 www.unc.edu/news/newsserv NEWS For immediate use Oct. 15, 1999 No. 631 Photo note: See end of story to download a Molina photo. Nobel prize winner who predicted ozone hole to give science lecture as part of chancellors seminar series CHAPEL HILL Dr. Mario J. Molina, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for predicting that man-made chemicals would destroy the Earths protective ozone layer, will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nov. 10. His free, public lecture, "The Antarctic Ozone Hole," is intended for a general audience and will be held at 7 p.m. in UNC-CHs Memorial Hall. Molinas visit marks the second installment of the Chancellors Science Seminar Series, a public lecture series featuring world-renowned researchers in the basic and applied sciences. The series aims to enhance public awareness of scientific challenges and discoveries, as well as to highlight research being conducted at Carolina, said Dr. Greg Forest, senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Molina, professor of chemistry and Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of three scientists honored by the Nobel committee for research leading to an international ban on ozone-depleting chemicals. He shared the prize with Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland of the University of California at Irvine and Dr. Paul Crutzen of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. | |
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