Meet the two scientists who have just won the 2026 Nobel prize in chemistry

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Learn about the lives of newly minted chemistry Nobel laureates Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai

A French and Japanese chemist have just shared this year’s chemistry Nobel prize for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. We take a deeper dive into who they are and how they each came to this field.