Chemistry Nobel awarded to three scientists for their work on metal organic frameworks

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Susum Kitagava, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yagi for their work on metal frames.

The work of three scientists can be used to solve some of the largest problems on our planet, including capture of carbon dioxide, which can help solve climate change or reduce plastic pollution using chemistry.

“I am deeply awarded honor and glad, thank you very much,” Professor Kitagawa said by phone at the press conference after he was informed.

“How long should I stay here? Because I need to go to the meeting, ”added Professor Kitegava.

Three winners will share prize money in 11 million Swedish crowns (872,000 pounds).

The work of three scientists about how molecules can be built together in structures. The Nobel Committee called this “molecular architecture.”

Men developed how to build structures with large spaces between molecules through which gases and other chemicals can flow.

They are called metal organic frames.

The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at the press conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

Professor Kitagawa works at the Kyoto University in Japan, Professor Richard Robson studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor Omar M. Yagi studies at the University of California, USA.

Last year, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker received a prize for their work on proteins, which are building blocks of life.

This is the third scientific prize awarded this week. On Tuesday, John Clark, Michelle H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel of physics for their work on quantum mechanics, which laid the path for a quantum computer.

On Monday, the work of three scientists on how the immune system attacks hostile infections, received a prize for medicine.

One winner, Dr. Fred Ramsdell, did not receive the news within 20 hours, because he was on a pedestrian journey without a network.