2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Research on the Origin of Homochirality
Discovery of ‘how and why’ homochirality emerges receives 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Laser Focus World reports that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for research revealing how and why homochirality arose.
Sally Cole Johnson is Laser Focus World’s editor in chief, and she has more than 25 years’ experience as a science and technology journalist. She specializes in physics and semiconductors, and wrote for the American Institute of Physics for more than 15 years, and also covered theoretical physics and neuroscience for the Kavli Foundation, and complexity for the Santa Fe Institute. Johnson has also written extensively about military embedded systems, high-performance computing, software-defined networks, and infosec. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (since 2001).
When she isn’t writing about optics, photonics, or quantum advances, you can find her outside in northern NH in the garden with birds landing in her hand or heading for the mountains with her bike, skis, or crampons and ice axe.
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