Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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October 8, 2026
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What the press did not cover
3omissions found
All these omissions share the same fate: covered by 3 countries or more.
France1 omissionCovered by
3 of 18
3 of 18the autocatalysis work of Kenso Soai (reaction described in 1995, demonstrated in 2003)
United States1 omissionCovered by4 of 18
4 of 18the exclusion of Henri Kagan from the 2001 Nobel Prize and the protest by the French Ministry of Research
Canada1 omissionCovered by4 of 18
4 of 18the exclusion of Henri Kagan from the 2001 Nobel Prize, recalled by the Belgian, French, Italian, and Colombian press