STOCKHOLM — A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate is among the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks.
Yaghi commenced his graduate education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his PhD in 1990 under the mentorship of Professor Walter G. Klemperer.
He is now with the University of California, Berkeley.
A west suburban man was among the three winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.
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Hans Ellegren, the secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, made the announcement regarding the chemistry award in Stockholm on Wednesday, marking the third prize declared this week.
Robson is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and Kitagawa with Japan’s Kyoto University.
There have been 116 chemistry prizes given to 195 individuals between 1901 and 2024.
The 2024 prize was conferred upon David Baker, a biochemist from the University of Washington in Seattle, and Demis Hassabis along with John Jumper, computer scientists at Google DeepMind, the British-American artificial intelligence research lab based in London.
These three individuals were recognized for their groundbreaking methods to decode and also design novel proteins, fundamental components of life. Their research employed cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, which could revolutionize the way new drugs and other materials are developed.
The first Nobel Prize for 2025 was unveiled on Monday. The medicine award was presented to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for their findings related to peripheral immune tolerance.
The physics prize announced on Tuesday was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their work in the peculiar domain of subatomic quantum tunneling, which enhances the capabilities of modern digital communications and computing.
This year’s Nobel announcements continue with the literature prize Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics prize next Monday.
The award ceremony will be held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, who founded the prizes. Nobel was a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. He died in 1896.
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Dazio reported from Berlin.
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