by Maleeha Sofi Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

SRINAGAR: In 1965, in the crowded lanes of Amman, Jordan, a young boy named Omar Mwannes Yaghi was born into a Palestinian refugee family that had been uprooted from the depopulated village of Al-Masmiyya, once nestled in the Gaza Subdistrict. His family, like thousands of others displaced during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, lived in stark poverty. Their single-room home doubled as a shelter for livestock, with no electricity and scarce access to clean water. Yet from that modest beginning would rise one of the most celebrated chemists of the 21st century.

On October 2, 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Omar M. Yaghi, now a professor at the University of Californi

See Full Page