# 2026’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French scientist Henri Kagan and Japan’s Kenso Soai for their work on non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work helps explain how chemical reactions can produce one mirror-image form of a molecule rather than an equal mix of both. The Nobel Committee’s Hiener Linke says their work has also been important in developing chemical reactions used to manufacture medicines:
2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize awarded to scientists who solved a century-old molecular mystery [SOUND]
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