Provost Lecture: Omar Yaghi

"Reticular Chemistry Leading to Carbon Capture and Water Harvesting from Air"

Omar Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. He received a BS in chemistry from SUNY Albany (1985) and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois-Urbana (1990). He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1990-92) and has held professorial positions in chemistry at Arizona State University (1992-97), the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1998-2005), and UCLA (2006-11). Professor Yaghi has received numerous awards including the Materials Research Society Medal (2007), the American Chemical Society Award in Chemistry of Materials (2009), the King Faisal International Prize in Science (2015), the Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2017), the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences (2018), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2018), the Eni Award for Excellence in Energy (2018), and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Aminoff Prize (2019). Professor Yaghi was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Oct. 18, 2019

[my_eclipsedsun]

Absolutely inspring, shows how cool it is to be as knowledgeable as you can be in an area and more importantly shows how chemistry can change the world

[yasaine]

11:07 "if i continued in that area, I would not even get tenure." LMAO

[gregdoswalt]

What is the name of the book you describe at the end of the video?