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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry

STOCKHOLM, October 7, 2026 (AP) Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously, Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said in a news release. The chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular. Kagan, 95 years old and born in France, is affiliated with Universit Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Soai, born in Japan, with the

7 Oct 2026 3:49 pm