Stockholm: Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M Yaghi have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their pioneering work in the development of metal-organic frameworks, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.

Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Academy, announced the prize in Stockholm. It is the third Nobel Prize to be revealed this week.

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, followed by the Peace Prize on Friday and the Economics Prize on Monday. The formal award ceremony will take place on December 10, marking the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

Since its inception in 1901, a total of 116 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded to 195 laureates.

The 2024 Chemistry Prize went to David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington, and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind, for developing advanced AI-based methods to decode and design proteins — breakthroughs that could revolutionize drug discovery and material design.

Earlier this week, the 2025 Nobel in Medicine was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance, while the Physics Prize went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their research on quantum tunnelling and its role in advancing modern digital communications.