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As of Oct 7, the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, the medicine prize has honored optogenetics, and the physics prize has gone to a single laureate, per QbitAI.
- Oct 7Reported by QbitAI
2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for work on how single-handed chirality can arise, per QbitAI
QbitAI reports that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan of Université Paris-Sud and Kenso Soai of Tokyo University of Science for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Kagan, 95, had been widely seen as overlooked when the 2001 chemistry prize went to asymmetric catalysis pioneers.
Source: QbitAI - Oct 6Reported by QbitAI
2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to a single laureate, per QbitAI
QbitAI reports that this year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a single laureate, noting that a highland in Antarctica is named after him.
Source: QbitAI - Oct 5Reported by QbitAI
2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honors optogenetics, per QbitAI
QbitAI reports that the Nobel Prize was awarded for optogenetics, the technique that grew from light-sensitive switches in green algae into a way to control neurons.
Source: QbitAI
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