Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Work on Mirror-Image Molecules
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 has been awarded to Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai for their discoveries related to mirror-image molecules.
- Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026.
- The award recognises their work on nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
- Their discoveries showed how chemical reactions can produce one of two mirror image forms of a molecule.
Henri B Kagan of Paris-Sud University in France and Kensō Soai of Tokyo University of Science in Japan have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026.
The prize was given for their discoveries concerning nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work demonstrated how chemical reactions can result in one of two mirror-image forms of a molecule.