Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai

Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs - WXXV News 25

By  ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, KOSTYA MANENKOV and STEFANIE DAZIO STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine. Many molecules come in versions that look alike but are not exactly identical, like...

French-Japanese Duo Wins Chemistry Nobel For Molecular Discovery

France’s Henri Kagan and Japan’s Kenso Soai have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a century-old puzzle about how molecules choose their “handedness”. A discovery with major implications for medicine. Molecules such as amino acids can exist in two mirror-image forms, much like left and right hands. Yet proteins in our bodies use… Continue reading French-Japanese Duo Wins Chemistry Nobel For Molecular Discovery

French Holocaust survivor wins Nobel Prize in chemistry

Henri Kagan was awarded the Nobel Prize for his joint effort to selectively create mirror image versions of molecules

Chemistry Nobel goes to molecular chirality researchers

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 has been awarded to Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai for their discoveries in asymmetric organic synthesis.

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.