Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded To Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks
(Wednesday October 08, 2025 @05:20PM (msmash)
from the top-honor dept.)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/1852221/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-to-architects-of-metal-organic-frameworks
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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi were [1]awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for the development of molecular building blocks with spaces large enough that [2]gases and other chemicals can flow through them . The New York Times:
> The cavities on the inside are "almost like rooms in a hotel, so that guest molecules can enter and also exit again from the same material," Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said during the announcement of the award. The laureates' discoveries, he added, pave the way for the creation of materials that can separate toxic chemicals from wastewater or harvest water molecules in a desert.
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> The laureates' work started with experiments by Dr. Robson in the 1980s and gradually developed over a period of about 15 years. "It takes time for science to be recognized, and it takes multiple workers in the field with different approaches," said Dorothy Phillips, president of the American Chemical Society. The three laureates will share a prize of 11 million Swedish kronor, or around $1.17 million.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html
[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/press-release/
> The cavities on the inside are "almost like rooms in a hotel, so that guest molecules can enter and also exit again from the same material," Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said during the announcement of the award. The laureates' discoveries, he added, pave the way for the creation of materials that can separate toxic chemicals from wastewater or harvest water molecules in a desert.
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> The laureates' work started with experiments by Dr. Robson in the 1980s and gradually developed over a period of about 15 years. "It takes time for science to be recognized, and it takes multiple workers in the field with different approaches," said Dorothy Phillips, president of the American Chemical Society. The three laureates will share a prize of 11 million Swedish kronor, or around $1.17 million.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html
[2] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/press-release/
If you want ... (Score:3)
by PPH ( 736903 )
... terminators, this is how you get terminators.
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by Chris Mattern ( 191822 )
The Metal Lives.
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Slow year (Score:2)
Hard to predict what the future holds, but in a hundred years we'll still be talking about Madame Curie, but not these guys - I think.
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> Without looking it up, can you list the other two nobel prize winners for physics alongside Marie Curie?
Her husband Pierre, and a guy named Becquerel Since I wasn't allowed to look it up, I might have mangled the spelling.
BTW, I was referring to her Nobel in Chemistry - she had two.
So thanks for your modding me down. Then so cowardly and wrong, acting like the self proclaimed genius you thing you are, referring to an off topic Nobel, thinking I was referring to her physics Nobel? I was referring to her chemistry Nobel my dear cockawhoop. If you are going to be smart, stay on topic.
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File "feeding troll" under "That trick never works".
Fast year from the Japanese perspective (Score:2)
She has a number of special firsts that will keep her secure in the history books, but I think you are mostly just "complaining" about timing issues.
In Japan the story got lots of enthusiastic coverage, though it was kind of funny listening to a reporter asking an actual expert about the significance of their work. Mostly it was clear that the reporter had no idea what questions to ask, but the expert was also unprepared to explain to a broad audience. NHK was mostly scurrying about for the coming new confe