Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Three, Including Japanese Professor, for Development of Metal-Organic Frameworks (Update)

Three Nobel Chemistry Laureates. Provided by the Nobel Committee

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan; Richard Robson, a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia; and Omar M. Yaghi, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.

The Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 8 (local time) that the prize was awarded to them for their development of metal-organic frameworks.

With this, a Japanese scholar has received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, following the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Shimon Sakaguchi, a distinguished professor at Osaka University in Japan, was among the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine announced on October 6.

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