Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi

for the development of metal–organic frameworks

Omar M. Yaghi
 

Omar M. Yaghi was awarded one-third of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” He is University Professor and James and Neeltje Tretter Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, an affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, and his work has helped establish reticular chemistry as a transformative field in materials science.

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