"Science Is the Most Magnificent Equalising Force in the World." Omar Yaghi’s Vision – and Five Young Scientists Showing What It Takes to Make It Real

"Science Is the Most Magnificent Equalising Force in the World." Omar Yaghi’s Vision – and Five Young Scientists Showing What It Takes to Make It Real

Omar M. Yaghi during his first Lecture in Lindau When Omar M. Yaghi was ten years old, he walked into a public library in Jordan and found a book with drawings of molecules. He had no running water at home. No electricity. No scientist in his family, his street, or his town. But he had that book. More than fifty years later, he stood on the stage of the Lindau Inselhalle with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and a question that he has been asking…