化學獎得主還曾是約旦的難民:
Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1965 to parents who were refugees from Palestine. His father raised cattle and owned a butcher shop in Amman.
At the age of 15, he was told by his father that he must go to the U.S. to study and, within the year before he graduated from high school, he had obtained a visa and settled alone, in Troy, New York, to pursue his college education