Japanese Nobel laureate Kenso Soai looks on after taking part in a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Tokyo University of Science in Tokyo on October 7, 2026. France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai on October 7 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how to manipulate forms of key molecules, a crucial breakthrough for drug manufacturing. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)