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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for untangling mirror images in molecules

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for untangling mirror images in molecules
Image: Phys.org
Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.

Originally published at Phys.org

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