Honors
Mario Molina received several awards and honors, like the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Paul J. Crutzen; they got this for their investigations into CFCs. He also won the 1987 Esselen Award of the American Chemical Society, the 1988 Newcomb-Cleveland from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 1989 NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Advancement, and the 1989 United Nations Environmental Programme Global 500 Award. In 1990, the Pew Charitable Trusts Scholars Program in Conservation and the Environment honored him as one of the ten environmental scientists and awarded him a 150,000 dollar grant.
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