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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for research solving 'mirror image' mystery

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for research solving 'mirror image' mystery
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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror images in chemical molecules, a discovery that transformed modern medicine. Many molecules of life come in versions that look alike but aren’t exactly identical, like right and...

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