Born in Jordan from a poor family Palestinian refugee who ended up in Swedenthe Ommar Yagi, awarded today with the Nobelpraised her “power” science In reducing inequalities by insisting on the need to support research.

“We cannot solve the problems of society without science” and “without funding, you cannot science,” he said American -ladish at a press conference.

The chemist was honored, along with Japanese Soussoumou Kitagawa and Britain -born Richard Robson for the development of new molecular structures capable of capturing gases.

A valuable honor that shows in his opinion “the power of the public American school system that receives people like me, coming from a privileged environment, refugees,” he said.

“I grew up in a very poor house, you know. We were a dozen in a room we shared with the animals we diverted,” Yagi said during his speech at the Nobel Foundation.

The room had neither electricity nor drinking water. His mother did not know how to read or write.

Yagi grew up in Aman, where he was born in 1965, before going to the United States for his 15 -year -old studies, following advice from his strict father.

He is 10 years old when he first discovers chemistry. Yagi then punches in his school’s library, which is always locked, and accidentally selects a book from a shelf. Opening it, his eyes are impressed by images of incomprehensible but exciting images: It is his first meeting with molecular structures.

“It’s a unique course and science allows us to complete it. I mean, science is the biggest power” in the service of equal opportunities, he says.

“Science is a flagship of our country. Therefore, we cannot give up,” the chemist argued, stressing its role in innovation and the service of equal opportunities.

“Intelligent, talented and capable people are everywhere. We should really focus on liberating their potential, offering them opportunities,” the Nobel laureate.

His research team managed to extract water from the air of the Arizona desert where he himself did his first lessons.

“I started my career at the State University of Arizona and my dream was to publish at least one article that would accept 100 reports. Today, my students say that our team has gathered more than 250,000 reports,” he said.

After studying his studies in New York State, where he did a series of chores, he took his doctorate in Chemistry in Illinois and then taught many American universities before joining Berkeley, California in 2012.

This year’s award -winning work has created tens of thousands of new different molecular networks, capable of capturing carbon dioxide, store gases or even separate PFAS, these synthetic chemicals that take extremely long time to decompose and can affect water.

“The beauty of chemistry lies in the fact that if you learn to control the material at the level of the individual and the molecule, the potential is huge and we have opened a gold mine in this way, and the sector developed,” Yagi added.