Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi now joins a coveted list of 198 laureates such as Marie Curie for breakthrough work in Chemuistry.
1 / 6Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 Winners | The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOF).” (Image: X/@NobelPrize)
2 / 6Discovering MOFs | Their research, done separately, led to building a special kind of molecular structure called a metal-organic framework (MOF). These MOFs hold remarkable potential in solving real-world problems. It can be applied for solutions to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions. (Image: Canva)
3 / 6About Susumu Kitagawa | Kitagawa is a professor at Kyoto University, where he completed most of his higher studies from bachelor’s through PhD. He was honoured with many awards, including the Chemical Society of Japan Award (2009), Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (Chemistry) (2010), the Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry (2013), and the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize for Outstanding Contribution (2025), among others. (Image: Kyoto University)
4 / 6About Richard Robson | Robson is a professor at the University of Melbourne. He was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in the year 2000 and received the Burrows Award, RACI in 1998. (Image: University of Melbourne)
5 / 6About Omar Yaghi | Yaghi is a Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. The scientist is also a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010), King Faisal International Prize in Science (2015), Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2017), and Balzan Prize (2024) are just a few of the many awards and honours Yaghi has earned. (Image: University of California)
6 / 6Nobel Prize in Chemistry History | Since 1901, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded 117 Nobel Prizes for exceptional work in Chemistry. A total of 198 individuals, including eight women, have received the prize so far. The youngest recipient is Frédéric Joliot, who won it at 35 years old in 1935, while the oldest is John B. Goodenough, who was 97 years old when he was awarded the prize in 2019.
