Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025?

Metal-organic frameworks, a near boundless group of functional materials that faced years of apathy, are the focal point of this year’s prize. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia) and Omar Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA) for their contributions to the discovery and development of metal-organic frameworks. In 1974, Richard Robson was tasked with creating models composed of wooden balls and poles with which students at the University of Melbourne could create molecular structures. In the process, he instructed the university’s workshop to...