# 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for autocatalysis discovery

https://mins.news/en/item/90720

- CGTN, 2026-10-07 09:48 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-10-07/news-1R38oRGrjiM/p.html?UTM_Source=cgtn&UTM_Medium=rss&UTM_Campaign=World

> The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their work helps explain how chemical asymmetry can arise spontaneously and gives chemists greater control over reactions that produce mirror-image molecules.

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