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To whom the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 was awarded?

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Yoshinori Ohsumi

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy” — the cellular self-degradation and recycling process he mapped using yeast genetics.

Thouless and Kosterlitz shared the 2016 Physics Nobel (topological phases); Fraser Stoddart shared the 2016 Chemistry Nobel (molecular machines).

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