A photo of Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan can be seen on the speaker's desk at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, after the announcement he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 3, 2016. The 2016 Nobel prize season kicks off with the announcement of the medicine prize by a scandal-tainted jury, to be followed over the next 10 days by the other science awards and those for peace and literature. / AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND