New member in Obama’s team
November 18, 2008 | News
A U.C. San Diego scholar has been tapped to join president-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. Nobel prize winner, Mario Molina was chosen to lead a group looking at the nation’s science and technology policies, which include a program that will reduce the effects of global warming.
Mario Molina was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry back in 1995 for his research examining the threat posed by chlorofluorocarbon gases to the earth’s ozone layer. Molina who is originally from Mexico City has lived in the states since 1975; he currently works as professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
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