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In this file photo dated Friday, April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. (AP/Fernando Vergara)
T
he Nobel Assembly at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute is getting ready to announce the first of this year's Nobel Prizes: the award in medicine or physiology.
It will be the 107th award in that category since the first Nobel Prizes were handed out in 1905.
The prize committee often awards discoveries that were made decades ago, to make sure that they're still relevant.
(Read also: 3 win medicine Nobel for discovering brain's GPS)
Last year's prize was shared by three scientists who developed treatments for malaria and tropical diseases.
The 2016 medicine prize is set to be announced at 11:30 a.m. in Stockholm (0930 GMT).
The announcements continue with physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday and the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The economics and literature awards will be announced next week.
Each prize is worth 8 million kronor ($930,000).
