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Japanese scientist wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for asymmetric autocatalysis
Original: 硤合憲三
Asahi Shimbun reports that a Japanese researcher has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of asymmetric autocatalytic reactions, a process in which a chemical reaction catalyzes its own replication while favoring one mirror-image form of a molecule. The finding is considered foundational for understanding how biological molecules came to exist in a single handedness. Congratulations and discussion of the science are spreading widely across Japan.
Why now: The announcement of a new Japanese Nobel laureate in Chemistry is major national news and is being heavily searched and shared.
Nobel Prize in ChemistryJapanAsahi Shimbun
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- ノーベル化学賞に硤合憲三さん 不斉自己触媒反応を発見 · 朝日新聞
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