A scientific pipeline to the Nobel Prize fueled by immigrants

He grew up in a family of Palestinian refugees in Jordan. His one-room home, filled with eight siblings, their parents and cows, lacked electricity and running water. Early on, a schoolbook's depiction of atomic building blocks caught his eye. When he was 15, his father, a butcher, sent him to study in the United States.

Now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Omar Yaghi, 60, is being honored on Wednesday at a ceremony in Stockholm with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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