Story preview
Topics in this story
Continue reading on the publisher site for the full article.
News Atlas is free and independent. If it’s useful to you, you can support it with a coffee. ☕ Buy me a coffee
Coverage
Tone
Outlets covering it
13
in the last 3 days
First reported
2 days ago
12 outlets since
Countries
12 other outlets reported this story in the last 3 days.
Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs.
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for solving a mystery with research on "mirror image" molecules.
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been hailed for discovering new ways of manipulating chemical reactions, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry said.