Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules
Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery that has aided understanding of how medicines work in the body The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026…
The Guardian reports: Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery that has aided understanding of how medicines work in the body The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can produce an overwhelming excess of one of two mirror image forms of a molecule.
This science story centres on France. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Henri B Kagan, Kensō Soai and Nobel.
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- Henri B Kagan, Kensō Soai, Nobel, Paris-Sud University
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