The Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B
Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering how to make chemistry choose a single mirror
image on Tuesday.
Some molecules,
such as amino acids, exist as two variants that are mirror images of each
other, yet living organisms contain only one of these variants. How such chemical
asymmetry could emerge long remained a mystery to chemists, and the Academy
honored Kagan and Soai for discovering the solution...