It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature .peace, and physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine has been awarded 106 times to 210 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015.
Here is a list of prize winners and their related discoveries for the last 10 years