{"id":2273,"date":"2026-10-07T16:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:03:46","slug":"henri-b-kagan-and-kenso-soai-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHenri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously,\u201d Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said in a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kagan is affiliated with Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, while 95-year-old Soai is associated with the Tokyo University of Science.<\/p>\n

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The chemistry prize is part of a week of Nobel announcements in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

The medicine prize was awarded on Monday to three scientists whose work led to a light-based tool for studying how the brain works, while Tuesday\u2019s physics prize recognised research into a rare group of neutrinos.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, followed by the Peace Prize on Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday.<\/p>\n

The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), to be shared where there are multiple laureates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. \u201cHenri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously,\u201d Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said in a news release. \u201cThe chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular.\u201d Kagan is affiliated with Universit\u00e9…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}