Tokyo, Japan - Japanese chemist Kenso Soai of professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) speaks at a press conference as he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the TUS campus Tokyo on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. Soai and French chemist Henri Kagan won the prize to discover non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis (photo by Yoshio Tsunoda AFLO) aflo_354044021
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October 7, 2026, Tokyo, Japan - Japanese chemist Kenso Soai of professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) speaks at a press conference as he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the TUS campus Tokyo on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. Soai and French chemist Henri Kagan won the prize to discover non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis (photo by Yoshio Tsunoda AFLO) aflo_354044021
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