The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metalorganic frameworks." The first Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded in 1901Image: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi