Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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TaiwanTaipei takes note of the implications of this Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pharmacy and the origin of life, with local researchers detailing the significance of "left" and "right" 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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the narrative highlights industrial and pharmaceutical fallout as well as the origin of life.
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the Liberty Times relies on Taiwanese researchers mobilized by a scientific media center.
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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