The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded Wednesday, Oct. 7, to French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai for discoveries that helped explain how chemical reactions can favor one of two mirror-image forms of a molecule. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized their…
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.
Scientists paid tribute to Kagan and Soai's groundbreaking work, which the Nobel committee described as a feat never previously achieved by anyone “other than life itself.”
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japan’s Kenso Soai for unravelling the mystery of why only one of two forms of certain molecules occurs in nature.
Il Quotidiano del Sud Il Nobel 2026 per la Chimica assegnato al francese Kagan e al giapponese Kenso Soai (Adnkronos) – Sono il francese Henri B. Kagan e il giapponese Kenso Soai i vincitori del premio Nobel per la Chimica 2026. L’annuncio pochi minuti fa. “L’Accademia reale svedese delle scienze…
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STOCKHOLM — Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror images in chemical molecules, a discovery that transformed modern medicine.
