King Abdullah II hails Omar Yaghi’s Nobel Prize win as "Jordan’s pride"

•  His Majesty King Abdullah II congratulated Jordanian-American Professor Omar Yaghi for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• The king said the achievement is Jordan's pride. 

His Majesty King Abdullah II congratulated Jordanian-American Professor Omar Yaghi for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, praising his achievement as a source of national pride. 

“Proud of Jordanian scientist Professor Omar Yaghi, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His achievement is Jordan’s pride, and adds to Jordanians’ record of excellence in all fields, at home and abroad, proving they can make a difference wherever they are,” the king posted on X. 

Proud of Jordanian scientist Professor Omar Yaghi, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His achievement is Jordan’s pride, and adds to Jordanians’ record of excellence in all fields, at home and abroad, proving they can make a difference wherever they are

— عبدالله بن الحسين (@KingAbdullahII) October 8, 2025

Yaghi won the prize alongside Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa, and UK-born Richard Robson for their development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the Nobel Committee announced Wednesday.

"These constructions, metal–organic frameworks, can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the jury said.

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For years, commentators have pointed to Yaghi as a leading candidate for the prize, frequently mentioning Kitagawa’s name alongside his.

Earlier in 2017, King Abdullah II honored Jordanian scientist Professor Omar Yaghi with the King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein Medal for Excellence for his groundbreaking contributions to chemistry and scientific research.

Yaghi, once ranked the world’s second most influential chemist, was also a Nobel Prize nominee in 2015.