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A graduate of Aberdeen      University and Imperial College where she specialised in studying echinoderms – ‘spiny’ sea creatures such as starfish and sea urchins. She was the crustacean expert at the British Museum of Natural History, now known as the Natural History Museum, and was the first woman to be appointed to a full-time scientific post there. 

 Part of a team of scientists that discovered the ozone hole over the Antarctic, and predicted that certain chemicals would cause this issue. Molina’s article on the subject led directly to an international treaty to protect the ozone hole and ban               chloroflourocarbons.                 He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

Theoretical physicist, emeritus professor in the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles