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Professor Richard Robson (1937-)

Award: 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Awarded for: The development of metal-organic frameworks
Awarded with: Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi


Professor Robson developed a new kind of solid called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), that are being developed into gas and energy storage devices, catalytic reactors and other potentially revolutionary products. Professor Robson has been a lecturer and researcher at the University of Melbourne since 1966.

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