Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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ItalyRome takes from the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the promise of safe medicines: the Italian press explains mirror molecules through thalidomide and recalls Kagan's exclusion in 2001.
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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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Focusing on the 2001 controversy
the title highlights Kagan's past exclusion rather than Soai's work.
Medication framework
chirality is presented mainly through its pharmaceutical implications and the example of thalidomide.
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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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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026
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