Three scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on metal-organic frameworks
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Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks.
The winners are Susumu Kitagawa from Kyoto University in Japan, Richard Robson from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and Omar M. Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley.
From 1901 to 2024, 116 Nobel Prizes were awarded in chemistry. Eight of the 197 chemistry winners have been women, including Marie Curie in 1911.
Last year’s chemistry award was split between David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington in the United States, and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) unit.
Hassabis and Jumper created AI models that can predict protein structures, while Baker pioneered a method to design new proteins that can be used in medicines, vaccines, nanomaterials, and tiny sensors.
The rest of the 2025 Nobel Prizes, awarded for advancements in literature and economics and toward peace, will be awarded in the coming days. The awards for medicine and physics were announced earlier this week.
The Nobel laureates will receive their prizes at an awards ceremony in Sweden in December.
