Mexican Nobel laureate Molina, ozone layer prophet, dies at 77

FILE PHOTO: Jose Mario Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, attends the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Cancun March 20, 2010. REUTERS/Gerardo Garcia/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), died on Wednesday at the age of 77.

One of Mexico's most eminent scientists, Molina conducted some of his first experiments at a tender age in his childhood home before becoming a global authority on climate change.