Professor Richard Robson Awarded Nobel Prize For Chemistry

University of Melbourne Professor Richard Robson was one of three scientists awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Robson received his Nobel Medal from the King of Sweden on 11 December 2025 at a ceremony in Stockholm.  

Professor Robson, Professor Susumu Kitagawa from Kyoto University and Professor Omar M. Yaghi from the University of California were recognised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for their development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). 

Metal-organic frameworks are a new class of solids being developed into gas and  energy storage devices, catalytic reactors and other potentially revolutionary products.

Dr Robson together with Dr Bernard Hoskins were the recipients of funding from the Selby Scientific Foundation over the years 1989 and 1990, in relation to work done at the University of Melbourne, School of Chemistry on the design and synthesis of infinite lattices. The Foundation received a letter from the recipients in 1992  acknowledging the support for their project which would not have proceeded without the help of the Foundation.