Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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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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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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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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the narrative highlights the medicinal use of the discovery rather than the fundamental chemistry.
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