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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Nobel Prize 2026 in Chemistry: Henri B. Kagan, Kenso Soai help solve mystery of molecular asymmetry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

The discoveries have helped explain how homochirality, a phenomenon in which living organisms contain only one of two mirror-image variants of certain molecules, can emerge.

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