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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Henri B. Kagan of Université Paris-Sud, France, and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University of Science, Japan, for their groundbreaking discoveries in non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their research solved one of chemistry's oldest mysteries—how molecules that exist as mirror images come to exist almost exclusively in one form in living organisms. This phenomenon, known as homochirality,