TEMPE, Ariz. — Former ASU Assistant Professor Omar Yaghi was announced Wednesday as one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Yaghi, 60, was awarded the prestigious honor along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for their work on metal-organic frameworks.

Yaghi, who now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, was an assistant professor at ASU from 1992 to 1998.

During his time at ASU, Yaghi was part of a research group that started combining metal ions with organic molecules. By the early 2000s, Yaghi was credited with laying the "final bricks in the foundation of metal–organic frameworks."

His research group would go on to utilize their metal-organic framework to harvest water vapor from Arizona's desert air, according to the the Royal Swedish Academy of

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