Smart people are everywhere, if only they can be given opportunity, says Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi

Smart people are everywhere, if only they can be given opportunity, says Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi

 Brittany Hosea-Small

Born into a family of Palestinian refugees in Jordan with little schooling, Nobel chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi on Wednesday paid tribute to science's "equalising force".

Yaghi, a Jordanian-American, won 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.

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