The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi for their work on metal organic frameworks, the BBC reports.
The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
“I’m deeply honored and delighted, thank you very much,” said Professor Kitagawa on the phone to the news conference after he was told the news.
“How long do I have to stay here? Because I have to go out for a meeting,” he added.
The three winners will share prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor.
The three scientists’ work is about how molecules can be built together into structures. The Nobel committee called it “molecular architecture”.
