Trio wins chemistry Nobel for new form of molecular architecture
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A screen displays the 2025 Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Australia), and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley, U.S.), as they are announced during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden October 8, 2025. — Reuters
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Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday, which developed a method of designing molecular structures, which included several use of carbon dioxide and tackled climate change and water harvesting from the desert air.
Born in Japan’s Sosomo Katgawa, Richard Rubson, born in the United Kingdom, and US Jordan’s Omar Yagi were honored with their amazing discoveries from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
The jury said that thanks to these three discoveries, chemists have been able to create thousands of so -called metal organic framework (MOF).
“Some of these can help solve the biggest challenges of humanity,” he added.
It has a list of applications such as “separating PFA from water, breaking pharmaceutical traces in the environment, capturing carbon dioxide or harvesting water from the desert air”.
Revolutionary discoveries
In 1989, 88 -year -old Robson experienced using copper ions in a new way using atoms.
The jury said, “When they were folded, they binding to form a well -sorted, spacious crystal.” “It was like a diamond full of countless cavities.”
While Robson, a professor at the University of Melbourne, realized his ability to discover that molecular construction was unstable.
He was a professor of Kyoto University, and Professor Yagi of the University of California, Berkeley, who provided a suitable foundation for the building procedure.
Between 1992 and 2003, working separately, he released a series of revolutionary discoveries.
The jury said, “Katigawa showed that gases can flow into and out in construction and predict that the MOF can be made flexible.”
It added that Yagi created a “very stable MOF” and showed that it could be edited using rational design, which could give it new and desired features. “
‘Like sponge’
Reacting to the award, field experts agreed on the importance of work.
For the American Chemical Society President Doroti Jay Phillips, the most interesting application was the arrest of carbon dioxide.
“We are in the middle of climate change, we really want to reduce track and carbon dioxide … this is a great application,” he told AFP.
Ross Fourgan, a professor of material chemistry at the University of Glasgow, told AFP that the MOF can be described as “solid things that are filled with holes”.
“They have the ability to store more funny more because they are hollow, and they can remove other molecules like sponge,” said Fortgan.
David Fairen Gymines, a professor of MOFS at the University of Cambridge, explained that he could also be collected to create new “functional content.
He added, “It is very easy to imagine as an uno -building game,” he added, comparing “playing with Lego”.
‘Coffee Travel’
In an interview to the Nobel Foundation, Yagi said he had won the award, learning to learn on it.
When the academy called her to announce the news, she was on the airport switching flights.
Yagi was born in a family of Palestinian refugees in Oman, Jordan.
“I am growing in a very polite house,” he said. “And, you know, we were a dozen of us in a small room, sharing it with cattle we used to pick up.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its statement that the school provided a refuge for Yagi. He went to the United States to study at the age of 15.
“So this is a lot of trips,” he said. And science has allowed it to make it.
“Science is the world’s greatest equal force,” said Yagi.
A diploma, a medal and a check
The Chemistry award pursues the Physics Award, which was honored on Tuesday, Britone John Clark, French Michelle Dorites and American John Martins, in which the theory quantum mechanics was practiced.
On Monday, Madison’s Nobel Prize went to the United States Mary Burko and Fred Ramsidel and Japan’s Simon Sakaguchi to research the human immune system.
The Nobel Literature Prize will be announced on Thursday, followed by the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
Economics prize on October 13 to the Nobel Season of 2025.
The Nobel Diploma, gold medals and $ 1.2 million check, should be shared if there are more than one winner in a discipline.
