STUDENT GETS HELP FROM NOBEL LAUREATE
Author: AP
Date: Thursday, November 2, 1995
Page: 63
Section: METRO
PHILLIPS, Maine -- When Maggie Nerney needed some help with a science
report, she went right to the top. She called a Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
"He was very nice," Nerney said of Mario Molina, a Massachusetts Institute
of Technology professor.
"He wanted to make sure I understood what he was telling me," said the
14-year-old student at Phillips Middle School.
Molina and two other scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Oct.
11 for their work warning that gases once used in spray cans and other items
are eating away Earth's ozone layer.
"I asked him how he became interested in science and he said that he had
been interested as a child, and that he knew when he was in high school that
he wanted to be a scientist," said Nerney.
Nerney said she handed in a report about her Oct. 18 talk with Molina. As
of Tuesday, she was still waiting to see what grade it received.
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