In 2022, he built a pocket-sized device to extract drinking water from the air in Death Valley using only sunlight; in 2025, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Between August 19 and 23, 2022, Omar Yaghi's team placed a thermos-sized cylinder in Furnace Creek, inside the Death Valley National Park.
- The device was not connected to anything and for three complete cycles of night and day the device extracted liquid water from the air of one of the driest and hottest places on the planet.
- Two years later, Yaghi's invention scored him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the first to a Saudi national, according to a report by Vozpopuli.
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- Between August 19 and 23, 2022, Omar Yaghi's team placed a thermos-sized cylinder in Furnace Creek, inside the Death Valley National Park.
- The device was not connected to anything and for three complete cycles of night and day the device extracted liquid water from the air of one of the driest and hottest places on the planet.
- Two years later, Yaghi's invention scored him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the first to a Saudi national, according to a report by Vozpopuli.
Sources: Times of India