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Chemistry Nobel goes to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for mirror-image molecule research
France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in asymmetric chemistry, the study of molecules that exist as non-identical mirror images. Nobel committee chair Heiner Linke said they resolved a century-old mystery of how homochirality can emerge spontaneously. The prize is worth 12 million Swedish kronor.
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- AP via Oskaloosa Herald: Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai
- CNN via KIFI: Kagan and Soai awarded Nobel for mirror molecules
- Ynetnews: Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry
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