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AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah congratulated on Wednesday Jordanian scientist Omar Yaghi for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In a post on X platform, the King wrote, “Proud of Jordanian scientist Professor Omar Yaghi, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His achievement is Jordan’s pride, and adds to Jordanians’ record of excellence in all fields, at home and abroad, proving they can make a difference wherever they are.”
Yaghiwon the 2025 prize together with Susumu Kitagawa of Japan and UK-born Richard Robson for their groundbreaking discoveries on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), whose uses include capturing carbon dioxide and harvesting water from desert air.
After learning he had won the prestigious prize, Yaghi said, during an interview with the Nobel Foundation, “Science is the greatest equalising force in the world.”
"Smart people, talented people, skilled people exist everywhere. That's why we really should focus on unleashing their potential through providing them with opportunity,” AFP reported.
His research group succeeded in extracting water from desert air in Arizona.
"I started at Arizona State University, my independent career and my dream was to publish at least one paper that receives 100 citations," he recalled.
"Now my students say that our group has garnered over 250,000 citations."
"The beauty of chemistry is that if you learn how to control matter on the atomic and molecular level, well, the potential is great," he said.
"We opened a gold mine in that way and the field grew," he said.
