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Special ‘I was motivated by solving problems the world didn’t care about,’ first Saudi Nobel laureate Omar M. Yaghi tells Arab News photos

‘I was motivated by solving problems the world didn’t care about,’ first Saudi Nobel laureate Omar M. Yaghi tells Arab News

  • Yaghi became the first Saudi national to win a Nobel Prize, sharing the 2025 Chemistry award for work on metal-organic frameworks
  • Prior to gaining US and Saudi citizenship, he grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp, where water scarcity and hardship shaped his early life
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