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Svante Pääbo

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Swedish geneticist (born 1955)

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Svante Pääbo (Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ̂ ˈpʰɛ̌ːbʊ̂]; born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. In 1997, he became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Since 1999, he has been an honorary professor at Leipzig University; he currently teaches molecular evolutionary biology at the university. He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

Quick facts

Born
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Place of birth
Hedvig Eleonora and Oscar Parish wd
Citizenship
Sweden wd
Occupation
geneticist, biologist, evolutionary biologist, university teacher wd
Education
Uppsala University wd
Spouse
Linda Vigilant wd

Awards wd

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1992)
  • honorary doctor of the University of Zurich (1994)
  • Max Delbrück Medal (1998)
  • Carus medal (1999)
  • doctor honoris causa of the University of Helsinki (2000)
  • Ernst Schering Prize (2003)
  • Leipziger Science Award (2003)
  • Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2005)
  • Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (2008)
  • honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology (2008)
  • Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009)
  • Kistler Prize (2009)
  • Honorary Doctor at Karolinska Institutet (2012)
  • Gruber Prize in Genetics (2013)
  • Sven Berggren prize (2013)

About

In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".

Questions

When was Svante Pääbo born?
Svante Pääbo was born on 20 April 1955 in Hedvig Eleonora and Oscar Parish.
Where did Svante Pääbo study?
Svante Pääbo was educated at Uppsala University.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Svante Pääbo · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (Nepali): स्वान्टे पाबो · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Wikidata item Q170342 · CC0 1.0
  4. Image: Professor Svante Paabo ForMemRS (cropped).jpg by Duncan.Hull (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Last updated · facts checked 5 November 2026

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