A person walks past a Tokyo University of Science sign ahead of a press conference by Japanese Nobel laureate Kenso Soai after he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in Tokyo on October 7, 2026. France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai on October 7 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the mystery of why only one form of certain molecules appears in nature, a discovery decisive for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)