Nobel chemistry winner Kenso Soai says, "Most exciting day in my life"

TOKYO - Japanese organic chemist Kenso Soai, who won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry with French researcher Henri Kagan, told the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences by phone Wednesday that it was "the most exciting day of my life."

Soai, a 76-year-old professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science, also said he is glad that his field of research with Kagan, the discovery of "non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis," had been "recognized."