法国科学家亨利·B·卡根和日本科学家佐井健三获得化学诺贝尔奖，他们为解决生命不对称性的化学之谜做出了贡献。
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai for providing a solution to the chemical mystery of life's asymmetry.
诺贝尔委员会解释道："所有生命所使用的分子，如构成蛋白质的氨基酸，都是所谓的手性分子。"这意味着它们具有两个互为镜像的版本。"生命非常选择性，只能与其中一个版本配合。两位科学家回答了生命为何偏好其中一个镜像分子而非另一个的问题。
The Nobel Committee explained: "Molecules used by all life, such as the amino acids that are building of proteins, are what is known as chiral. "This means that they have two versions that are mirror images of one another." Life is highly selective and only works with one version. The two scientists answered the question of why life favours one of these mirror image molecules over the other.