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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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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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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United StatesCalendar
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