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Pengungsi Palestina Raih Hadiah Nobel 2025, Omar Yaghi Dihormati Dunia

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Jumat, 10/10/2025 11:15 WIB

Yaghi lahir di Amman, Yordania pada tahun 1965. Keluarganya dulu adalah pengungsi Palestina yang pindah ke sana usai perang Arab-Israel 1948.

1/6 UC Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi poses in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, U.S., in an undated photograph. Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, on October 8, 2025. Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS.   NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Ilmuwan berdarah Palestina Omar M Yaghi baru saja dinobatkan sebagai pemenang Hadiah Nobel Kimia 2025. (Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS)

2/6 UC Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi poses in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, U.S., in an undated photograph. Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, on October 8, 2025. Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS.   NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Penghargaan tersebut diberi karena temuannya berupa teknologi memanen air langsung dari udara. Inovasinya disebut bisa menjadi solusi global atas krisis air bersih. (Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS)

3/6 UC Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi poses in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, U.S., in an undated photograph. Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, on October 8, 2025. Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS.   NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Yaghi lahir di Amman, Yordania pada tahun 1965. Keluarganya dulu adalah pengungsi Palestina yang pindah ke sana usai perang Arab-Israel 1948. (Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS)

4/6 UC Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi poses in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, U.S., in an undated photograph. Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, on October 8, 2025. Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS.   NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Yaghi juga merupakan anggota National Academy of Sciences Amerika Serikat dan German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. (TT News Agency/Fredrik Sandberg via REUTERS)

5/6 UC Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi poses in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, U.S., in an undated photograph. Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, on October 8, 2025. Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS.   NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Yaghi dikenal sebagai salah satu ilmuwan paling berpengaruh di dunia. Ia telah menulis lebih dari 300 publikasi ilmiah. (Paul Burston/University of Melbourne/Handout via REUTERS)

6/6 UC Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi poses in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, U.S., in an undated photograph. Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, on October 8, 2025. Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS.   NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Dikutip dari berita DetikEdu, sebelum meraih penghargaan Nobel Kimia 2025, Yaghi juga telah meraih berbagai penghargaan bergengsi seperti Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2018), King Faisal International Prize in Science (2015), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017), Tang Prize, dan Balzan Prize (2024). (Brittany Hosea-Small/UC Berkeley/Handout via REUTERS)