[2nd report] Kakang and Soai study on ‘homomorphic chirality’ for Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Japan produces Nobel Prize winners in chemistry for two consecutive years

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kang Hoon-sang = This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Henri Kagang (95), a professor at the University of Paris XI in France, and Soai Kenso (76), a professor at the Taoist University of Science in Japan.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Nobel Committee announced on the 7th (local time) that they had been selected as winners for their discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

Heiner Linke, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said of the two laureates, "They have provided an answer to a chemical mystery that has been going on for over 100 years: how homochirality (a phenomenon in which molecules that make up living things exhibit only one direction) can spontaneously appear."

With this award, Japan has produced a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for the second year in a row.

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry receives 12 million Swedish Krona (about 1.61 billion won), and if there are multiple winners, the prize money is divided.