Umbrella
- ID-nummer
- 2014.025.001
- Titel
- Umbrella
- Objektkategori
- Kläder & assessorer
- Publik beskrivning
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For Mario Molina, this umbrella symbolised both his old school and the fragile ozone layer, to which he devoted his research.
When Molina was 11 years old, his parents sent him to the Institut auf dem Rosenberg boarding school in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It was there he developed his interest in chemistry and mathematics. Many years later, Molina was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the atmosphere’s ozone layer. His Nobel Prize diploma bears the image of an umbrella; a symbol for the way the ozone layer protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation. When Molina later visited his old boarding school, this umbrella was presented to him as a gift.
Mario Molina donated the umbrella to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2014. - Pristagare
- Mario J. Molina
- Mått
- Width: 35 cm Height: 86 cm Depth: 105 cm Circumference: 319 cm
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