A research university emphasizes entrepreneurial science—and spawns start-ups in fields as varied as genetic medicine, humanoid robotics and carbon-catching materials.
Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.
(NHK World Japan) Born to a Palestinian refugee family, Omar Yahgi has become one of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ground-breaking work in MOFs, or metal-organic frameworks.
In a video on CNN's Global Public Square, biochemist Jennifer Doudna tells Fareed Zakaria what it was like to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 and how her discovery opens up new possibilities.
(BBC) - The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for their work on metal-organic frameworks.
By Alexa Robles-Gil and Ali Watkins | The New York Times
(NY Times) - The prize was awarded to Omar Yaghi, Susumu Kitagawa, and Richard Robson for the development of an architecture that some chemists compare with a molecular sponge.
By Kostya Manenkov, Stefanie Dazio and Christina Larson | LA Times
(LA Times) - Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their development of metal-organic frameworks that could eventually help reduce pollution and combat climate change. Photo courtesy of Atoco.
The 2016 Millennium Technology Prize winner Frances Arnold won the 2018 Nobel prize in chemistry and is now the third person to have won these two prestigious prizes. Professor Arnold, who is on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology, won the Nobel prize for her career-long work in directed evolution."
Doudna discusses how CRISPR can be used to correct disease-causing genetic mutations, the impact that it’s already having and where she sees the technology going in the future.
(NY TImes) As three immigrants claim Nobel Prizes in science for the United States this year, experts warn that immigration crackdowns could undo American innovation.
