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Matthew Addicoat, Senior Lecturer in Functional Materials, Nottingham Trent University

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules

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The 2026 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to two researchers for their work on mirror-image molecules.

Frances’s Henri Kagan and Japan’s Kensō Soai were announced as this year’s winners during a news conference in Stockholm.

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