University of California, Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, for developing metal-organic frameworks or molecular structures that can trap, store, and filter gases. Yaghi, 60, shares the prize with Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University in Japan and Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne in Australia. (Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach via Bay City News)

A University of California, Berkeley chemistry professor was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developing metal-organic frameworks or molecular structures that can trap, store, and filter gases, with applications ranging from clean water to carbon capture.

Omar Yaghi, 60, was born on Feb. 9, 1965 in Amman, Jordan. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1990. 

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