The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi.
The three chemists will jointly receive 11 million Swedish kronor along with the prize.
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Who is Omar M. Yaghi ?
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He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and was also an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Yaghi is now serving as a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the James and Neeltje Tretter Professorship of Chemistry.
According to his bio at the University of California, Berkeley, Yaghi is the Founding Director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute. The aim of this institute is to build research centers and provide opportunities to scholars from developing countries.
Yaghi has contributed to the synthesis, structure, and properties of inorganic and organic compounds, as well as to the design and construction of new crystalline materials.
Yaghi is also an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as well as the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Yaghi has already received several awards, including the Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (2004), the Materials Research Society Medal (2007), the American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Materials (2009), the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010), and the King Faisal International Prize in Science (2015).