Tag: "Nobel Prize in Chemistry"
Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel chemistry prize

Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel chemistry prize

World 18:23 07/10/2026

STOCKHOLM -- Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis," the award-giving body said on Wednesday.

Nobel winner Kitagawa believes in 'useful uselessness'

Nobel winner Kitagawa believes in 'useful uselessness'

World 16:34 09/10/2025

KYOTO -- Susumu Kitagawa, a 74-year-old Japanese researcher who has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has words of Chinese thinker Zhuangzi to live by--something apparently useless is actually important.