Frenchman Henri B won. Kagan and the Japanese Kanso Sui won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in recognition of their discoveries in the field of "non-linear effects and self-catalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis". The winners were announced Wednesday during a press conference held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The research of the two scientists is of particular importance in chemistry, especially in the production of drugs and molecules with biological activity, as it contributed to the understanding of how to selectively produce one of the two mirror forms of molecules.

The French chemist Henri B. Kagan in 1930 in France, received his education at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and received his doctorate at the Collège de France in 1960. As for the organic chemist Kensō Suai, he was born in 1950 in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, graduated from the University of Tokyo, and received his doctorate in 1979.