Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016, announced October 3, 2016. Yoshinori Ohsumi, “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”. Yoshinori Ohsumi: born 1945, Fukuoka, Japan. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).