Omar Yaghi

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Omar Yaghi

Omar Mwannes Yaghi (* 1965 in Amman , Jordan ) is an American chemist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

Omar M. Yaghi studied at the University at Albany, The State University of New York , where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1984 . In 1990 Yaghi received his PhD from the University of Illinois . He then spent three years as NSF - Fellow in Harvard . He then went to Arizona State University before moving to the University of Michigan in 1999 as Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor . From January 2006 to 2012 he worked at the University of California, Los Angeles .

Yaghi is researching metal organic frameworks and other scaffolds that can store hydrogen or carbon dioxide and release it again when required.

In 2007 he received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the AAAS for best scientific work and for exceptional achievement in science. Also in 2007 he was awarded the Materials Research Society Medal. In 2010 he received the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry . In 2015 he was awarded the König Faisal Prize in the science category and in 2017 the Albert Einstein World Award of Science and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award . In 2018 he received the Wolf Prize for Chemistry, and in 2019 he was awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize . Also in 2019, Yaghi was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 2020 he received the August Wilhelm von Hofmann medal .

Works

  • OM Yaghi, GM Li, HL Li: Selective binding and removal of guests in a microporous metal-organic framework. In: Nature. Volume 378, No. 6558, 1995, pp. 703-706.
  • OM Yaghi, HL Li: T-shaped molecular building units in the porous structure of Ag (4,4'-bpy) center dot NO3. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Volume 118, No. 1, 1996, pp. 295-296.
  • OM Yaghi et al .: Synthetic strategies, structure patterns, and emerging properties in the chemistry of modular porous solids. In: Accounts of Chemical Research. Volume 31, No. 8, 1998, pp. 474-484.
  • H. Li et al .: Design and synthesis of an exceptionally stable and highly porous metal-organic framework. In: Nature. Volume 402, No. 6759, 1999, pp. 276-279.
  • M. Eddaoudi et al .: Modular chemistry: Secondary building units as a basis for the design of highly porous and robust metal-organic carboxylate frameworks. In: Accounts of Chemical Research. Volume 34, No. 4, 2001, pp. 319-330.
  • E. Spencer, JAK Howard, G. McIntyre, J. Rowsell, OM Yaghi: Determination of the hydrogen absorption sites in Zn4O (1,4-benzenedicarboxylate) by single crystal neutron diffraction. In: Chem. Comm. 2006 (3), pp. 278-280.
  • OM Yaghi: A Tale of Two Entanglements. In: Nature Mat. 2007, 6, 92.
  • BL Huang, Z. Ni, A. Millward, AJH McGaughey, C. Usher, M. Kaviany, OM Yaghi: Thermal conductivity of a metal-organic framework (MOF-5): Part II. Measurement. In: Int. J. Heat and Mass Trans. 2007, 50, pp. 405-411.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ U. Michigan's Omar Yaghi on What's In Store for MOFs ( Memento August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). on sciencewatch.com, November / December 2004.
  2. ↑ ucla.edu: Omar M. Yaghi ( Memento of February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ "Science & Debate - Small Tank with Big Holes" , Handelsblatt of September 21, 2006, p. 9 (PDF; 371 kB).
  4. ↑ Climate gas sucker on the chimney. on heise.de, March 5, 2008.
  5. ^ MRS Medal Recipients on the Materials Research Society website
  6. ↑ GDCh Awards 2020 / DBG Awards 2020 . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . June 11, 2020, doi : 10.1002 / anie.202005849 ( wiley.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Yaghi, Omar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yaghi, Omar M .; Yaghi, Omar Mwannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jordanian-American chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Amman , Jordan