Omar M. Yaghi
Omar M. Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مونّس ياغي, born February 9, 1965) is a Jordanian-American chemist. He was born in Amman, Jordan. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Yaghi is known for creating reticular chemistry, which is a new field of chemistry. It focuses on the stitching of molecular building blocks together by strong bonds to make open frameworks.[1][2][3]
His most well known work is in the design and production of new classes of compounds known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[4][5]
In 2017, he won the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. In 2018, Yaghi won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry.[6][7]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ " Omar Yaghi wins Albert Einstein World Award of Science ", Chemical & Engineering News, 10 July 2017. Retrieved on 12 March 2018.
- ↑ " Makoto Fujita and Omar Yaghi win Wolf Prize in Chemistry ", Chemical & Engineering News, 19 February 2018. Retrieved on 12 March 2018.
- ↑ " Spiers Memorial Lecture - Progress and prospects of reticular chemistry ", Royal Society of Chemistry, 18 August 2017. Retrieved on 12 March 2018.
- ↑ Omar M. Yaghi's biography
- ↑ Sezer, Yusuf (November 16, 2016). "TÜBA 2016 Akademi Ödülleri'ni kazananlar açıklandı" (in Turkish). ABC Haber. Archived from the original on January 27, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ " The 2018 Wolf Prize laureates have been announced " Archived 2018-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, Wolf Foundation, 12 February 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
- ↑ Jerusalem Post - Wolf Prizes 2018
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