Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist Leaves U.S. to Join Chinese AI Project
Chemist Omar Yaghi, a 2025 Nobel laureate for helping to develop new types of materials called “metal-organic frameworks,” has reportedly left the United States to become the leader of an AI research…
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scmp.com·12d agoNobel-Winning US Chemist Will Move to China to Lead AI Institute
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Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02143-x Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in Chi
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02143-x Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in Chi
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02143-x Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in Chi
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02143-x Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in Chi
Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China
Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02143-x Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in Chi
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