America Let This Palestinian Refugee In — Now He’s Taking His Award-Winning Science To China

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi, who arrived in the United States as a teenage refugee and built one of the world’s most celebrated scientific careers at American universities, is leaving the country for a full-time position in China.

Yaghi, who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has accepted a faculty appointment at Beijing’s Tsinghua ...