Omar M. Yaghi

オマー・ヤギー　/　おまー・やぎー

American chemist

February 9, 1965 (age 61)　・　Amman, Amman Governorate, Jordan

Amman Governorate
chemist
university teacher

My Take

I genuinely find Omar Yaghi one of the most quietly revolutionary scientists alive. Growing up in Amman and making his way to the University of Illinois, then building a career at UC Berkeley — that arc alone is remarkable. But what really gets me is what he actually built: metal-organic frameworks, these almost impossibly elegant porous structures that can capture gases, store hydrogen, and — this is the part that stops me cold — pull water straight out of desert air. The man invented a new branch of chemistry, reticular chemistry, basically from scratch. He stacked up a Wolf Prize, an Albert Einstein World Award of Science, a King Faisal Prize, and more, and the scientific community has been whispering "Nobel" for years. The symmetry of a scientist from a dry, arid region spending his career figuring out how to harvest water from thin air feels less like coincidence and more like destiny.

Overview

Omar Mwannes Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مُؤنس ياغي; born February 9, 1965) is a chemist best known for developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and pioneering reticular chemistry. He was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa, for this work. Yaghi is a University Professor and James and Neeltje Tretter Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

1. Profile

Name (English): Omar M. Yaghi
Name (Japanese): オマー・ヤギー
Reading: おまー・やぎー
Born: February 9, 1965 (age 61)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Snake
Origin: Amman, Amman Governorate, Jordan
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: chemist / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Awards & achievements

2015 King Faisal International Prize in Science
2010 Centenary Prize
2017 Albert Einstein World Award of Science
2017 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2007 MRS Medal Award
2019 Gregori Aminoff Prize
2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
2015 Mustafa Prize

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttps://yaghi.berkeley.edu/bio.html
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC