ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A University at Albany and Hudson Valley Community College alum has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Omar M. Yaghi shares this honor with Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University and Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne.

This year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized these three researchers for their development of metal-organic frameworks, which are porous molecular architectures with a vast internal surface area that have the ability to capture, store, and transform gases like hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor.

Yaghi moved to the U.S. at 15 years old and eventually settled in Troy to pursue his education. He earned his associate in science degree at HVCC in 1983 and his bachelor's degree in chemistry from UAlbany in 1985,

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