Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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ColombiaBogotĂĄ takes note of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its pharmaceutical scope: mirror molecules are presented as the key to the manufacture of medicines, more than as a laboratory enigma.
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United StatesThe United States takes away from this Nobel a century-old chemical enigma, solved by reactions deemed "spectacular" and useful for the manufacture of medicines, in a dispatch tone.
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Pharmaceutical framework
the narrative highlights the use of the discovery to manufacture medicines.
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the narrative places the price in the succession of Nobels for the week rather than in the scientific contribution.
Uncorrected age error
the NPR version attributes 95 years to Soai, whereas HuffPost, after correction, attributes them to Kagan.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026
millions of Swedish crowns
only one reports it12 million Swedish crowns