Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to run AI materials lab in China0

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• July 10, 2026

Chemist Omar Yaghi accepted a full-time position as a researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to take a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new artificial intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute. Nobel Prize in Chemistry for