Japan's researcher Soai wins Nobel chemistry prize with France's Kagan

Japanese organic chemist Kenso Soai and French researcher Henri Kagan won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for their work to solve the chemical mystery surrounding mirror-image molecules, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Wednesday.Soai, 76, is a professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science in Japan and Kagan, 95, is a professor emeritus at the Universite Paris-Sud in France."Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously. The chemical reactions they have developed are sp…READ FULL ARTICLE