The University of Jordan (UJ) President, Prof. Nathir Obeidat, congratulates Prof. Omar Yaghi, Honorary Professor at the School of Science, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Prof. Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Prof. Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan), and Prof. Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Australia) for their development of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). These frameworks represent a new type of molecular architecture featuring large pores that allow molecules to move freely. Their applications have been groundbreaking, including harvesting water from desert air, capturing carbon dioxide, removing pollutants from water, and storing hydrogen.
Yaghi is a globally recognized chemist, serving as Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute. In January 2025, he became the seventh President of the World Cultural Council and is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Throughout his distinguished career, Yaghi has received numerous international honors, including the Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Centenary Prize, King Faisal International Prize, Mustafa Prize, Albert Einstein World Award of Science, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, ENI Award for Energy, Gregori Aminoff Prize, VinFuture Prize, Wilhelm Exner Medal, Tang Prize, Balzan Prize, Von Hippel Award, and now the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 2023, UJ honored Yaghi by appointing him as an Honorary Professor in the Department of Chemistry, reflecting the university’s commitment to engaging world-class scholars whose research bridges scientific innovation with societal impact.
Yaghi’s pioneering work in designing and synthesizing MOFs and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) continues to transform energy storage, water harvesting, and environmental chemistry—advancing global science and inspiring the next generation of researchers.