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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are announced as the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, on Wednesday.JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who learned how to build stable materials that contain microscopic spaces ideal for absorbing gasses and other substances.
On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this year’s chemistry prize will go to Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University in Japan, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne in Australia and Omar Yaghi at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.
All three will share the prize for the development of “metal-organic frameworks,” a class of solids made of metallic ions joined by carbon based molecules that are designed to take up and store other substances. The development has led to numerous practical applications.
Wednesday’s announcement marks the third in a series of Nobel prize reveals.
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On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to a trio of researchers in the U.S. and Japan for discoveries related to the human immune system. On Tuesday, three U.S-based scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that helped set the stage for the development of quantum computers.
The spotlight now turns to this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize, scheduled to be announced on Thursday and Friday respectively. Recipients of this year’s economics prize, set to be revealed next Monday, will round out the cohort of 2025 Nobel laureates.
