The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Jordan
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jordanian Chemists of all time. This list of famous Jordanian Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Omar M. Yaghi (b. 1965)
With an HPI of 48.57, Omar M. Yaghi is the most famous Jordanian Chemist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Omar Mwannes Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مُؤنس ياغي; born February 9, 1965) is a chemist best known for developing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and pioneering reticular chemistry. He was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Richard Robson and Susumu Kitagawa, for this work. Yaghi is a University Professor and James and Neeltje Tretter Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In January 2025, he became the seventh president of the World Cultural Council, an international organization promoting cultural and scientific advancement.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Jordanian chemists born between 1965 and 1965. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Jordanian chemists include Omar M. Yaghi.
