Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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SwedenStockholm explains the chemistry of mirror hands: the Swedish press details the century-old enigma of homochirality and the scope of Kagan and Soai's "spectacular" reactions for drug manufacturing.
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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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Educational framework
the narrative highlights the concept of homochirality, presented as "livets kemi" (the chemistry of life).
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the explanation is based on the Royal Academy of Sciences and its 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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