The Nobel Laureates Of Mexico

Influential, creative minds, that call Mexico their home, number in the thousands. Their contributions continue to be a benefit to mankind with each passing moment. Three outstanding contributors to society and science, from Mexico, have so far won the highly regarded Nobel Prize: Octavio Paz, Mario J. Molina, and Alfonso Garcia Robles.

Alfonso Garcia Robles was born in the state of Michoacan in 1911, and studied law before joining the foreign service at the start of the Second World War. As a delegate from Mexico, he was at the San Francisco Conference in 1945, which started the UN. He also served as the ambassador to Brazil in the 1960s, the state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs, and was appointed as Mexico's permanent representative on the UN Committee on Disarmament. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 due to his work on the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which stated that Latin America would be a zone completely free of nuclear weapons.

Octavio Paz was a writer and activist whose writing has become extremely influential. He considered himself a poet foremost, influenced by authors like T.S. The first series was printed in 1933 by himself and Eliot. He was happy to speak out against fascism in Spain in 1937, as he maintained his stance as a lifelong liberal. As an essayist, his topics ranged from economics to Aztec art history and anthropology. Always fighting to expose human rights travesties, he spoke out against totalitarianism and abuses in communist societies, and maintained a democratic leftist view.. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Mario Molina is one of Mexico's most famous chemists. He was born in 1943 in the country's capital; he did part of his schooling in Switzerland, and traveled much of the world, thanks to his father who was a diplomat. Having acquired a doctorate in chemistry at the University of California (1972), this researcher pursued the science of the effects of the use of chlorofluorocarbons (or CFCs) and their impact on environment.

His associates included Paul Crutzen and F. The danger of CFCs to the ozone layer was made public in print in 1974, because of Sherwood Rowland and Molina; a ban, to begin immediately, was called for the use of the popular refrigerant and ozone-destroying chemical. Fortunately, chlorofluorocarbon production ceased after it was banned worldwide, even after much resistance by manufacturers. The three men shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, awarded in 1995. Molina currently serves on the transition team on environmental issues in the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama.

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