PHOENIX – A former assistant professor at Arizona State University won a Nobel Prize for chemistry along with two other groundbreaking scientists on Wednesday.

Omar M. Yaghi, 60, is now affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, but he was an ASU assistant professor from 1992 to ’98, when he started the work that led to his prestigious award.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Yaghi, Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University in Japan and Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne in Australia for developing metal–organic frameworks, a new form of molecular architecture.

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