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By Rodrigo Santos Andrade
Nobel prize in chemistry winners’ ‘mirror image’ molecules discovery dubbed ‘coolest experiment’
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Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric "mirror image" molecules, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday
"This is probably the coolest experiment in organic chemistry," Nobel committee for chemistry member Peter Somfai said. "Taken together, the groundbreaking discoveries by Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have reshaped our understanding of molecular chirality, how it is created, amplified, and transmitted.”
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