WorldPingKagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.
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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror molecules
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for untangling mirror images in molecules
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