Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for molecule findings
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
STOCKHOLM -- 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.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's own description from its feed. We collect headlines and these descriptions, not full articles; read the original reporting below.
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03212-x Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Plus, the biggest success stories in cancer survival and one of the biggest debates in neuroscience.
Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03093-0 Prize awarded to two chemists who probed why life favours one mirror-image molecule over another.
Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry; Ellen Moons, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and Peter Somfai, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, during the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Henri Kagan (France) and Kenso …
Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry; Ellen Moons, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and Peter Somfai, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, during the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Henri Kagan (France) and Kenso …
STOCKHOLM (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 homochiral…
Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work shed light on how chemical reactions favor one mirror-image form of a molecule over another.
By Issy Ronald, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for groundbreaking work in the field of asymmetric chemistry – unraveling the mystery of how molecules exist in non-identical mirror images of each other.
By Issy Ronald, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for groundbreaking work in the field of asymmetric chemistry – unraveling the mystery of how molecules exist in non-identical mirror images of each other.
Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can produce one of two mirror image forms of a molec…
France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai on Wednesday won the Nobel chemistry prize for solving the mystery of why only one version of some molecules' mirror-image forms appears in nature, a discovery decisive for the development of pharmaceuticals.
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for solving a mystery with research on "mirror image" molecules.
Henri Kagan, PhD, and Kenso Soai, PhD, shared this year's award for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis respectively.
STOCKHOLM >> Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric “mirror image” molecules, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given to two chemists for "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis."
Showing the first 25 of 27 headlines. ·
Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.
