Palestinian Scientist Omar Yaghi Wins 2025 Nobel in Chemistry

Berkeley, USA (QNN)- Palestinian refugee in Jordan, chemist Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). He shares the award with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised the trio for “creating molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow.” MOFs can store, filter, and transform molecules,…