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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry

NPR · Oct 7, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

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.

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