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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PeruLima takes note of the pharmaceutical aspect of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the Peruvian press presents Kagan and Soai's discovery as a tool for manufacturing medicines, with thalidomide as an example.
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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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PeruPharmaceutical
the narrative highlights the medicinal use of the discovery rather than the fundamental chemistry.
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