Meet the three scientists who have just won the Nobel prize in chemistry

2025 Nobel prize winners

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Learn about the lives of newly minted chemistry Nobel laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi 

Three prominent chemists have just won this year’s chemistry Nobel prize for their work developing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) – supramolecular constructions with large pores through which gases and other chemicals can flow. We take a deeper dive into who they are and how they converged on the same innovative area of chemistry from different directions.