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Kagan and Soai win chemistry Nobel for mirror-molecule work

The academy says Kenso Soai’s reaction was the first in which only one of two possible mirror images formed, a feat no one but life had achieved.

Whitehall Minute
Pages of handwritten lecture notes by Louis Pasteur on crystal structure and tartaric acid, the substance whose mirror-image crystals he studied in the 19th century