American Omar Mwannes Yaghi, the second most cited chemist in the world.
Elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences
Present Assignment:
- James & Neeltje Tretter Chair, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Education:
- BS – Chemistry – Cum Laude – State University of New York-Albany, New York (1983-85)
- PhD – Chemistry – Best Thesis Award – University of Illinois, Urbania-Champaign (1986-90)
- NSF Post Doctoral Fellow – Harvard University (1990-92)
Director:
- Founding Director – Berkeley Global Science Institute
- Co-Director – Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute
- Co-Director – California Research Alliance by BASF
Awards / Honours :
- Solid State Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society and Exxon Co (1998)
- Sacconi Medal of the Italian Chemical Society (2004)
- US Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Award (2007)
- Materials Research Society
- Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Chemical Society Chemistry of Materials Award (2009)
- Izatt-Christensen International Award (2009)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010)
- China Nano Award (2013)
- King Faisal International Prize in Chemistry (2015)
- Mustafa Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2015)\
- TÜBA Academy Prize in Basic and Engineering Sciences for establishing Reticular Chemistry (2016)
- Spiers Memorial Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017)
- Medal of Excellence of the First Order bestowed by King Abdullah II (2017)
- Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award(2017)
- Bailar Medal in Inorganic Chemistry (2017)
- Kuwait Prize in Fundamental Sciences (2017)
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science conferred by the World Cultural Council (2017)
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences for pioneering Reticular Chemistry (2018)
- Wolf Prize in Chemistry in which he was cited for pioneering reticular chemistry via metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks (2018)
- His work on water harvesting from desert air using metal-organic frameworks was showcased by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland as one of the top 10 emerging technologies
- Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2018)
- Eni Award in recognition of his work in applying framework chemistry to clean energy solutions including methane storage, carbon dioxide capture and conversion, and water harvesting from desert air (2018)
- Gregori Aminoff Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the development of reticular chemistry (2019)
- MBR Medal for Scientific Excellence of the United Arab Emirates (2019)
- Nano Research Award (2019)
- August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmunze gold medal of the German Chemical Society for his contribution to reticular chemistry and for pioneering MOFs, COFs, and molecular weaving (2020)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Water Award for his impactful development of water harvesting from desert air using metal–organic frameworks(2020)
Books/ Publications / Papers :
- Several books published. Many papers presented
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American / Palestine-Jordan / Arab-American