University staff and journalists listen to Japanese Nobel laureate Kenso Soai speak at a press conference after he won 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)