I'd like to point out that
chemists don't have
a
monopoly on studying objects with intrinsic
chirality, or
handedness.
In the standard model of elementary particle
physics, only left-handed particles and
right-handed anti-particles interact
via the weak interactions. Thus, it is a
chiral theory.
T.D. Lee and
C.N. Yang won the Nobel Prize
in 1957 for predicting that the weak interactions
were chiral, i.e. violated parity. C.S. Wu
and collaborators later verified their prediction
experimentally by looking at radioactive decay
of a cobalt isotope. Of course now it is
extremely well verified in high energy experiments.