Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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GermanyBerlin sees this Nobel Prize in Chemistry as the solution to a century-old puzzle, explained by the image of the two hands and rooted in the memory of Contergan.
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JapanTokyo hails a Japanese Nobel laureate in chemistry, the second in a row, by placing Kenso Soai, a child of Hiroshima, at the centre of the story, before the enigma of mirror molecules.
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Educational
the narrative highlights everyday images (gloves, key and lock, caraway aroma) rather than the 1986 and 1995 results.
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the narrative places the prize in Nobel week and recalls the distinction of two German medical researchers.
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JapanNational
Kyodo puts the succession of Japanese chemistry laureates at the forefront of the narrative.
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The Mainichi publishes a text from a US agency with no additional Japanese source in the excerpt.
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