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French, Japanese scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images ...
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists who unraveled mystery of mirror molecules

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed medicine.
Interesting Engineering

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to two scientists for providing solution to a century-old mystery

French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for providing a solution to a chemical mystery, which is over a century old.
Smithsonian Magazine

Two Chemists Win Nobel Prize for Unraveling a Mystery of Molecular ‘Handedness,’ Helping Drugmakers Develop Safer Medications

Many molecules come in two mirrored forms—like left and right hands—but living organisms generally contain only one. However, ...

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for untangling mirror images in molecules

Scientists Henri B ...

Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50/50 ...

Kagan, Soai share Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on homochirality

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given to two chemists for "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in ...

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for developing ‘spectacular’ chemical reactions

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror ...

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for unraveling mystery of mirror molecules

The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for groundbreaking work in the field of asymmetric chemistry – unraveling the mystery of how molecules exist in ...