Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates the explanation for spontaneous homochirality (where a molecule will convert to its mirror image). This is the process that is behind amino acid racemization dating, which we have used for dating shells in beach deposits.
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/summary/
Dr. Evan J. Gowan
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