Nobel Prize

Susumu Kitagawa receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. Susumu Kitagawa lecturing at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2025. The three 2025 chemistry laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Omar M. Yaghi and Richard Robson after delivering their Nobel Prize lectures on 8 December…

Omar M. Yaghi receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. Omar M. Yaghi lecturing at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2025. The three 2025 chemistry laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Omar M. Yaghi and Richard Robson after delivering their Nobel Prize lectures on…

Richard Robson receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. Richard Robson delivering his Nobel Prize Lecture on 8 December 2025 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. The three 2025 chemistry laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Omar M. Yaghi and Richard Robson after delivering their Nobel…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2025 “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems”  Omar Yaghi was just changing flights when he had heard the news that he had been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In this conversation, recorded as he was departing on the next leg of his journey,…

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by professor Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 8 October 2025. Interview about the awarded work “They have taken basic principles of chemistry and have been able to build remarkable materials.” Olof Ramström, professor of organic chemistry and member of the…

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They have created new rooms for chemistry Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 for the development of a new type of molecular architecture. The constructions they created – metal–organic frameworks – contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. Researchers have used…

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