Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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PakistanIslamabad sees this Nobel as a matter of fundamental chemistry: a century-old enigma of mirror molecules, solved through reactions deemed "spectacular".
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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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Scientific framing of the committee
the narrative reuses the terms of the Nobel committee and puts the enigma in the spotlight.
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the article mostly quotes the Academy and its committee, without any input from an outside researcher.
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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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