The researcher received the award on Wednesday, alongside Japanese chemist Kenso Soai. They were honored for their groundbreaking work on asymmetric catalysis.
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2026.
Maricarmen Abascal had been hospitalized with exhaustion after her eviction, which triggered national demonstrations over Spain's chronic housing crisis.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, speaking at a commemoration in Israel marking the third anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attack, said France 'rejects antisemitism' and continues to seek 'peace between Israelis and Palestinians.'
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot visits the site of the Nova music festival, in Re'im, southern Israel, on October 7, 2026, the third anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attack.
France said the Iranian authorities' comments on high school protests currently rocking France were 'absolutely unacceptable,' after Iran, which repressed a protest movement in January, accused France of 'human rights violations.'
French police officers wield batons as protesters form a chain with their arms during nationwide protests over school conditions, in Paris, on October 7, 2026.
The two chemists were honored 'for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis,' the jury said, which 'provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old,' according to the chair.
A screen displaying this year's laureates Henri Kagan of France and Kenso Soai from Japan during the announcement of the winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2026.
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