2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates. From the left: Professor Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Professor Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, and Professor Omar M. Yaghi of UC Berkeley / Kyoto University, University of Melbourne, UC Berkeley /Courtesy of [source]

This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded jointly to three people: Susumu Kitagawa (74), a professor at Kyoto University in Japan; Richard Robson (88), a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia; and Omar M. Yaghi (60), a professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in the United States.

The Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on the 8th (local time) that it would award them the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing "metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)," which have countless tiny pores and provide space that allows gases and liquids to flow on a large scale.

With this, a Japanese scholar will receive the chemistry prize following this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The winners of the physiology or medicine prize announced on the 6th included Shimon Sakaguchi , a distinguished professor at Osaka University in Japan.

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