Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai for designing chemical reactions that produce only one of two mirror-image molecular forms, a finding relevant to pharmaceutical synthesis.
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