The "American" winner of the Nobel in Chemistry is Palestinian by birth.

[NNadir]

Omar M. Yaghi is an immigrant born in Amman, Jordan.

Just saying...

Happily he wasn't killed as a child.

Metal Organic Frameworks MOFs, are a very, very big deal and the prize is well deserved.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Maybe he won't be let back in after that visit to Stockholm. nt

[xocetaceans]

2. That is true, but it seems like you might have some massive misconceptions about Amman, Jordan. n/t

[NNadir]

3. And those would be what? Are you about to inform me that there are no Palestinians in Jordan?

I would suggest in that case a quick Google search with the words "Jordan" and "Palestinian."

For quick reference, Wikipedia has a page on the subject.

There is also a Wikipedia page on Dr. Yaghi. You are invited to read the read the first line.

[xocetaceans]

4. Please read your post again re: "killed as a child".

Take for example, the Tang Prize 2024 video on YouTube as source of facts. Fine, he was born in Amman. That was never disputed.

Check the aforementioned video at 1:25. If you see that scene as even a possible portrayal of Amman and not as merely AI filler, that would be indicative that you likely have no idea at all of what Amman is like. That is fine. That is a bit of a trip.

Regardless, maybe, you have info on murder rates for children under 15 y.o. in Jordan, but I would be very surprised if those numbers were not virtually zero.

Ok. Maybe, you were just being sarcastic about the "situation" between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank. If that is the case, maybe you don't mean to imply that the level of threat in Jordan is high enough to make your statement even a remote possibility.

I don't know. You tell me. I would love to hear your impressions of Jordan.

[NNadir]

5. My point was a general remark that Palestinian children are being killed.

Where Dr. Yahgi's family ended up as Palestinians is somewhat arbitrary. I don't know whence Dr. Yahgi's family originated, but many "Palestinians" in Jordan are presumably from the West Bank, which was Jordanian territory before 1967.

Dr. Yahgi was born in 1965, two years before the 1967 Arab Israeli war during which Israel occupied the West Bank.

It was, um, a war.

I'm not interested in sharing my views of Jordan, any more than I am interested in learning you impression of whether it is possible that children are killed in wars.

I want no part of judging this awful conflict, going on since before I was born. I'm an old man too. I simply detest war. In a war, nobody is right, everyone is wrong. That goes for "good wars" and "bad wars."

Isreali scientists, Jewish scientists, have contributed hugely to science and I'm pleased to see an immigrant to the United States, of Palestinian origins win one. My point is that both sides contain human beings important to all of humanity.. One of the most important concepts in Chemistry is DFT, a discipline founded by Walter Kohn, who was one of the last escapees of the Kindertransport.

I'm a pacifist. I hate war. Is that OK with you?

[xocetaceans]

6. No problem. It just seemed like you might have been under the misconception that Jordan (i.e., Amman) is or was ...

quite violent. I had thought that maybe you had been there and had actual knowledge of the place. It still would have been interesting to know what you thought of the city and any of the countryside had you traveled there (especially had you been to Gerasa which you may have found quite interesting), knew its history, or talked with people thereabouts.

Of course, it absolutely goes without saying that war is a terrible thing for all the people in that region of the world and for people generally too.

Were you to want his biographical information, The Washington Post offered that the other day. It seems more in depth than the Wikipedia search (re: Jordan, etc.) that you had suggested:

A long ‘journey’ for Nobel chemistry winner born to Palestinian refugees

Omar Yaghi, 60, a U.S. citizen born in Jordan, says he was raised with a dozen others in one room.

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He was born into a family of refugees, he told the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awarded him the Nobel Prize in chemistry for groundbreaking work in molecular architecture, along with collaborators Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson. “My parents could barely read or write.”

Yaghi grew up in Amman, Jordan, where his parents moved after fleeing Gaza in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians took flight or were forced from their homes amid sectarian fighting in what would soon become Israel. “We were a dozen of us in one small room, sharing it with the cattle that we used to raise,” he said.

Yaghi first saw a “stick and ball” diagram of molecules at a public library in Amman, Jordan’s capital, when he was 10. He said he was immediately drawn to them and only later “learned that these were molecules that make up our world.”

At age 15, Yaghi moved to Troy, New York. He studied English at a community college before transferring to the University at Albany in 1983.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/08/nobel-prize-palestinian-omar-yaghi-chemistry/

All in all, that is a pretty remarkable trajectory.