Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

‘So this year’s prize is about foundational chemistry. Many molecules occur in two different versions. Like my hands. They are one another’s mirror image. They look alike, but they are not identical. I cannot put my hands on top of one another. Such molecules are called chiral, from the Greek word for hand,’ Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said.