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11 Oct 2026
The 2026 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The Nobel prize for Chemistry this year celebrates the pioneering work of Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai on homochirality - the synthesis of just the required enantiomer of chiral compounds and not the mirror...
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