<article data-history-node-id="429830" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/omar-yaghi-palestinian-refugee-wins-nobel-prize-chemistry" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/omar-yaghi-palestinian-refugee-wins-nobel-prize-chemistry" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;scientist who grew up in a refugee camp in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/jordan" target="_blank">Jordan</a>&nbsp;has been awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for his work developing a new form of molecular architecture which has the potential to limit the impacts of climate change.</p> <p>Omar Yaghi was awarded the prize along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for "the development of metal-organic frameworks" (MFOs) - constructions between molecules that could be used to capture and store or break down harmful gases and chemicals.</p> <p>The academy said in a statement that the MFOs can be used to "harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions", adding that the discoveries "may contribute to solving some of humankind’s greatest challenges".</p> <p>After the news, Yaghi said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC9H9r543xQ" target="_blank">telephone interview</a>&nbsp;with Adam Smith,&nbsp;the chief scientific officer for Nobel Prize Outreach,&nbsp;that "he was astonished, delighted, overwhelmed". Smith noted that Yaghi, 60, is probably the first Nobel laureate to be born in Jordan.</p> <p>Yaghi was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman,&nbsp;Jordan's capital, before&nbsp;moving to the US when he was 15.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/omar-yaghi-palestinian-refugee-wins-nobel-prize-chemistry">Omar Yaghi, a Palestinian refugee, wins Nobel prize in chemistry</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Omar Yaghi said: 'I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems' (X)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9b739e07-624f-4f90-a819-ac1f909404cf" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Omar%20yaghi%282%29.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="Omar Yaghi said: 'I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems' (X)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Omar Yaghi said: 'I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems' (X)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>

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