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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PeruLima takes note of the pharmaceutical aspect of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the Peruvian press presents Kagan and Soai's discovery as a tool for manufacturing medicines, with thalidomide as an example.
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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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PeruPharmaceutical
the narrative highlights the medicinal use of the discovery rather than the fundamental chemistry.
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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