Stockholm, Oct 7, 2026 (AFP) - From 1800s to modern pharma: a Nobel-winning chemistry quest

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Wednesday's Nobel chemistry prize crowned a series of advances that started in the 19th century and led to breakthroughs for modern pharmaceutical manufacturing. The work taught scientists how to produce a chosen form of certain molecules, "crucial for making things like drugs or even flavours and fragrances," said Phillip Broadwith, an editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine Chemistry World. Here are the steps that led France's Henri......

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