This year’s Nobel laureates have now been announced

Oct 8th 2025|7 min read

KITAGAWA SUSUMU of Kyoto University, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley will soon be enjoying a trip to Stockholm. They are this year’s winners of the Nobel chemistry prize, chosen for their work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). These, said Heiner Linke, who chairs the chemistry-prize committee, are like hotels for chemicals. Or perhaps self-assembling houses, added Olof Ramstrom, another committee member. Or Hermione Granger’s bottomless handbag in the “Harry Potter” books.