From a refugee family to Nobel Laureate: Omar Yaghi’s story

Nobel Laureate Dr. Omar Yaghi joins The Take aft winning the 2025 Nobel Prize successful Chemistry for processing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), materials that tin seizure c and store hydrogen. Born to a Palestinian exile household successful Amman, Yaghi tells the communicative of however hardship shaped his imagination, from getting caller h2o lone erstwhile a week to inventing systems that propulsion h2o from godforsaken air.

In this episode: 

• Dr. Omar Yaghi, Nobel Laureate successful Chemistry, Professor astatine University of California, Berkeley and Atoco Founder

Episode credits:

This occurrence was produced by Chloe K. Li and Melanie Marich with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Tamara Khandaker, Kylene Kiang, Sarí el-Khalili and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz and Sarí el-Khalili. 

The Take accumulation squad is Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Spencer Cline, Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Kylene Kiang, Phillip Lanos, Chloe K. Li, Melanie Marich, and Noor Wazwaz. Our big is Malika Bilal. 

Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Andrew Greiner is pb of assemblage engagement.

Our dependable decorator is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s enforcement producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s caput of audio. 

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