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Kagan and Soai Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discoveries about how chemical reactions can produce an overwhelming excess of one mirror-image form of a molecule. Their work on asymmetric organic synthesis has aided understanding of how medicines work and helped pharmaceutical development.

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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

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Henri Kagan, Kenso Soai win Nobel chemistry prize for ‘mirror image’ work

Scientists honoured for solving mystery of asymmetric molecules that has helped in manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules

Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can produce one of two mirror image forms of a molecule. Henri B Kagan at Paris-Sud University in France and Kensō Soai at Tokyo University of Science in Japan have been a…

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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror molecules

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been honoured for their work on making molecules form the correct mirror images

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🔴Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to France's Henri Kagan, Japan's Kenso Soai

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking discoveries related to the origin of chirality and life's chemistry.

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WATCH: Kagan and Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry for illuminating mirror-image molecules

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.

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