Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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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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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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Calendar
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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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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12 million Swedish crowns
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026
millions of Swedish crowns
only one reports itthis press does not report this figure