2025 Nobel prize winners

How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize

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From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

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Explainer: why have metal–organic frameworks won the Nobel prize in chemistry?

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 Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi scooped the Nobel prize for their work on MOFs – here’s everything you need to know

2025 Nobel prize winners

Meet the three scientists who have just won the Nobel prize in chemistry

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Learn about the lives of newly minted chemistry Nobel laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi 

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How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize

From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

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Rethinking workplaces for neurodivergent staff

Neurodivergent people often excel in skills highly valued in chemistry. Nina Notman investigates how employers are breaking down barriers and harnessing these talents through workplace adjustments and recruitment reforms

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The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live

Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry

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The lost treasure of electron microscopy

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Unpublished images should be brought to light to aid science communication and speed up discovery

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‘Making MOFs is the most fun I have ever had in the lab’

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A personal connection to the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

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The molecular mechanisms behind cell cognition

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Condensate formation is central to how budding yeast cells decide their response to environmental and internal conditions

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Coblentz’s infrared spectrometer and the overlooked power of vibrations

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Vibrational spectroscopy’s intuitive insight into molecular structure was initially shunned by chemists

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Fernando Gomollón-Bel uncovers a link between his hometown and the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

Why I’m still in love with the Nobel prize

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The enthusiasm and excitement the awards generate for the sciences are still second to none

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The Nobel laureate on the joys of entering a developing field, and the century of vision

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Walter Kohn: from kindertransport and internment to DFT and the Nobel prize

Join us on 25 November as we explore the legacy of Walter Kohn, the 1998 joint winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry

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The lost treasure of electron microscopy

Unpublished images should be brought to light to aid science communication and speed up discovery

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Restoring integrity: tackling fraud and data manipulation in scientific research

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How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize

From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

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Why we should stop venerating Nobel laureates

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A prize better than the Nobel

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