Omar M. Yaghi
9 February 1965 – present
Omar M. Yaghi is a Jordanian-American chemist known for developing reticular chemistry and the porous crystalline materials known as metal-organic frameworks. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he has applied these materials to gas storage, carbon capture and harvesting water from air. He shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks.
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Life events
He was born to a family of Palestinian origin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe emigrated at the age of fifteen to continue his education.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis doctoral work was supervised by Walter G. Klemperer.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe joined the faculty after postdoctoral work at Harvard University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe work demonstrated permanent porosity in metal-organic frameworks.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe continued developing reticular chemistry, including covalent organic frameworks.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became a professor of chemistry and later directed materials research programmes there.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the prize for his work on reticular chemistry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the prize with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for metal-organic frameworks.
Source: en.wikipedia.org