Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3, 2016. Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, the committee announced Monday. The Nobel assembly at the Karolinska Institute decided to award the 2016 physiology or medicine prize to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.(Xinhua/Shi Tiansheng)
