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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai for providing a solution to the chemical mystery of life's asymmetry, BBC reported. The researchers discovered how nature exclusively makes the correct version of a molecule - rather than its…
The prize was given to the French and Japanese scientists for solving the mystery of life's asymmetry.
The duo was recognised for the discovery of ‘non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis’
Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work shed light on how chemical reactions favor one mirror-image form of a molecule over another.
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03093-0 Prize awarded to two chemists who probed why life favours one mirror-image molecule over another.
