Born to Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Chemist Omar M Yaghi grew up in a crowded household. Now Omar Yaghi, along with Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Chemistry Prize.

They won for developing a new form of molecular architecture, yielding materials that can help tackle challenges such as climate change and lack of fresh water.

Yaghi has become the first Palestinian scientist to win the Nobel Prize, and in his words it was \"quite a journey\".

\"My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it,\" Yaghi said in an interview posted on The Nobel Prize X account.

Born in 1965, Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry in the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Chemistry f

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