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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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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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 places the price in the succession of Nobels for the week rather than in the scientific contribution.
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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