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Thursday 8 October 2026

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how reactions can make just one mirror image of a molecule.

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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They worked out how chemistry can pick one mirror image of a molecule over the other. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences named the pair in Stockholm on Wednesday 7 October, which was Wednesday evening here in Adelaide.

Illustration of two ball-and-stick molecules that are mirror images of each other, on either side of a glass mirror — Illustration: The Gold Standard

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