The season of the most important awards on earth has begun.. Swede wins the "Nobel for Medicine"

Svante Papu is the first researcher to sequence the genome of Neanderthals, EPA

The Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced on Monday that this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine will be awarded to Svante Papau, a researcher in Leipzig, Germany, for his findings on human evolution.

Babu is director and scientific member of the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

He is the first researcher to, among other things, sequence the Neanderthal genome.

Last year, the prize went to researchers David Julius and Erdem Patbutian, for their discovery of cell receptors that humans use to sense temperature and touch.

The Nobel Prizes are awarded 10 million Swedish crowns ($900,000) for each category.

Traditionally, the annual announcement of the most important prizes on earth is opened with the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Medicine at the beginning of October.

The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry will be announced on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the Academy will announce on Thursday and Friday the winners of the Literature and Peace Prizes, respectively.

Finally, the economics prize will be announced next Monday, although it does not depend on the final will of the prize's founder and inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, who lived from 1833 to 1896. The prizes will be awarded on the anniversary of Nobel's death on December 10.

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