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US scientist of Palestinian descent among three winners of Nobel Prize in chemistry

Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, address a press conference to announce Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar M. Yaghi as the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 8, 2025.

Omar M. Yaghi wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry, together with Susumu Kitagawa of Australia and Richard Robson of Japan, for work in the development of metal-organic frameworks.

Yaghi, born to Palestinian refugee parents in 1965 in Amman, Jordan, is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to the US by himself at 15 for an education, according to a profile from the California university. He also holds Saudi citizenship.

Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces the chemistry prize in Stockholm. It is the third prize announced this week.

Yaghi, born to Palestinian refugee parents in 1965 in Amman, Jordan, is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to the US by himself at 15 for an education, according to a profile from the California university. He also holds Saudi citizenship.

FreeStuffsNG:

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FreeStuffsNG:
Gaza produced a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, right in the middle of a US-funded Islreali genocide being committed in Gaza.

Those who have written of Gaza and parroting that nothing good can ever come out of Gaza, hide your face in shame. This is Gaza.
Palestine will be free. Prisoners in Isreal and Gaza will be free too. ICC must not relent in prosecuting everyone and institutions that are complicit in the Gaza genocide.


Their works
The three winners will share prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor (£872,000).

The scientists' work is about how molecules can be built together into structures - or metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The Nobel committee called it "molecular architecture".

The men worked out how to build constructions with large spaces between the molecules, through which gases and other chemicals can flow.

These "rooms" can be used to capture and store chemicals that humans want to get rid of, including carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or so-called forever chemicals, also known as PFAS.

The scientists began working independently on the structures in the 1970s and 1980s. Prof Robson asked his university to drill holes into the lab worktops so that wooden balls - representing atoms - could be attached to wooden rods, representing chemical bonds.

So far MOFs have only been used on a small-scale, but companies are looking into whether they can be mass-produced.

One potential application is to break down harmful gases, including those used in nuclear weapons.

Companies are also testing whether they can be used to capture the planet-warming gas carbon dioxide from power stations and factories.

"Together, [the winners] have helped lay the foundations of and set the direction for one of the fastest-growing areas of fundamental research in modern chemistry," said Professor Sheila Rowan, vice-president of the Royal Society, Britain's national scientific academy.

Sabadon:
let humans quit this geographical profiling of an individual.... how about "I am an inhabitant of planet earth"

na all these things dey cause sentiments, racism and tribalism.

Righteousness2:
Just as in the case of Yasser Arafat.
The late leader of the non existing entity

Born in Cario Egypt 1929.



There has never been anything like pally.
They are from Jordan, Egypt, etc

FreeStuffsNG:

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PDPdestroyer:
The Nigerian Jews Juice won’t like this at all

MrColdsweat:
Blackman still dey shout holy ghost fire....

Sabadon:
let humans quit this geographical profiling of an individual.... how about "I am an inhabitant of planet earth"

na all these things dey cause sentiments, racism and tribalism.

tctrills:
You mean we should disregard our geography, heritage and those things that makes us unique?
I completely disagree. I represent me Family, my community, my tribe, my country, my race before I represent the earth.
We all have our anchor locked in somewhere. We are not just adrift, representing nothing.

Righteousness2:
According to OP




Born in JORDAN! If you check, his Parents are Jordanians. That is his country .

Let that sink in.

Pally state is a scam. There has never anything like that.