Japanese Nobel laureate Kenso Soai takes part in a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Tokyo University of Science in Tokyo on October 7, 2026. Japan's Kenso Soai and France's Henri Kagan 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)