Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi for metal-organic frameworks

The Nobel Prize 2025 in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi for the “improvement of steel–natural frameworks.” Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, introduced the chemistry prize in Stockholm on Wednesday. It was the third prize introduced this week. The Nobel committee mentioned that the three laureates have created molecular constructions with massive areas by which gases and different chemical compounds can stream. “These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be utilized to reap water from desert air, seize carbon dioxide, retailer poisonous gases or catalyse chemical reactions,” the Nobel Committee mentioned in an announcement.

Find out about three Nobel laureates

88-year-old Robson is affiliated with the College of Melbourne in Australia, Kitagawa (74) with Japan’s Kyoto College and Yaghi (60) with the College of California in Berkeley. The trio’s analysis dates again to 1989. “Steel-organic frameworks have monumental potential, bringing beforehand unexpected alternatives for custom-made supplies with new features,” Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, mentioned in a information launch. There have been 116 chemistry prizes given to 195 people between 1901 and 2024.

Who have been awarded in 2024? 

The 2024 prize was awarded to David Baker, a biochemist on the College of Washington in Seattle, and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, pc scientists at Google DeepMind, a British-American synthetic intelligence analysis laboratory primarily based in London. The three have been awarded for locating highly effective strategies to decode and even design novel proteins, the constructing blocks of life. Their work used superior applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, and holds the potential to remodel how new medication and different supplies are made.

Nobel Prize 2025

The primary Nobel Prize of 2025 was introduced on Monday. The prize in drugs went to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for his or her discoveries regarding peripheral immune tolerance. Tuesday’s physics prize went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for his or her analysis on the bizarre world of subatomic quantum tunnelling that advances the ability of on a regular basis digital communications and computing. This yr’s Nobel bulletins proceed with the literature prize on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize shall be introduced on Friday, and the economics prize subsequent Monday.

(With inputs from AP)

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