Students wait for a chance to see Japanese Nobel laureate Kenso Soai following his 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)