Nobel laureate Molina lectures at AIT
Nobel laureate Prof. Mario J. Molina (left) will be the lecturer-opener in March 2005 on the 2nd and final 'Bridges' event series to be held at the AIT Conference Center, AIT. He will lecture on Tuesday, 08 March 2005, 3:00 p.m. on the topic 'The impact of human activities on the chemistry of the atmosphere'.
Professor Molina, a faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) receive and shares the 1995 Nobel Prize Award for Chemistry with Prof. F. Sherwood Rowland and Prof. Paul J. Crutzen for their work in atmospheric chemistry.
Mario J. Molina was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). After he earned his chemical engineer degree and worked as an Assistant Professor at UNAM, he left for the University of California at Berkeley where he received his Ph.D. after graduate studies in physical chemistry. At this stage he decided to be involved with research that was useful to society, but not for potentially harmful purposes.
At the University of California at Irvine he began his studies on the influence of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) on the atmosphere, a research field he continued to work on at Irvine, at the California Institute of Technology and at MIT. The findings of Prof. Molina and his fellow scientists on CFCs and the decision to communicate these findings not only to other scientists but also to policy makers and the media have had a profound impact on the global environment as they heavily improved the public awareness for the CFC-ozone issue and its serious consequences for the atmosphere. Prof. Molina has also been pursuing interdisciplinary work on tropospheric pollution issues, working on the problem of rapidly growing cities with severe air pollution.
A Q&A; session will follow the lecture. A live web-broadcast and instructions for viewing lectures online can be seen at http://203.159.5.16/NobelLectures/live.html. A complete schedule on the event's lecturers at AIT can be obtained at https://oldweb.ait.ac.th/nobellectures2
All are cordially invited. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend. For further information please e-mail to: nadeera@ait.ac.th