He grew up waiting two weeks for water. Then he built a machine to pull it from the sky.
TL;DR: Omar Yaghi grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp where water arrived once every two weeks. That childhood scarcity drove him to invent Metal-Organic Frameworks — engineered crystals that pull clean drinking water from desert air using nothing but sunlight. In 2025, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry…
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13 May 2026