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Kagan and Soai Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Homochirality Work

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for research on non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, work that helped explain how life's chemical handedness could arise.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for research on non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, work that helped explain how life's chemical handedness could arise.

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