BIOLOGIST

Svante Pääbo

1955 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Svante Pääbo has received more than 784,114 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Svante Pääbo is the 76th most popular biologist (up from 414th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 425th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Svante Pääbo ranks 76 out of 1,097. Before him are Robert Edwards, Ferdinand Cohn, Herman Boerhaave, Max Theiler, Ernst Mayr, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. After him are Dmitri Ivanovsky, Bernard Katz, Philip Miller, Ibn al-Baitar, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Archibald Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Svante Pääbo ranks 35. Before him are Nina Hagen, Dodi Fayed, Chow Yun-fat, Marcelo Bielsa, Donatella Versace, and Najib Mikati. After him are Kris Jenner, Liu Xiaobo, Mark David Chapman, Mariano Rajoy, Lazarus Chakwera, and Billy Bob Thornton.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 108 out of 1,879. Before him are Haakon VI of Norway (1340), Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (1938), Alva Myrdal (1902), Bertil Ohlin (1899), Lennart Torstensson (1603), and Nils Liedholm (1922). After him are Rudolf Kjellén (1864), Ulf von Euler (1905), Arvid Carlsson (1923), Peter Stormare (1953), Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (1861), and Nathan Söderblom (1866).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 3. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), and Hugo Theorell (1903). After him are Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Tomas Lindahl (1938), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Adam Afzelius (1750), and Anders Sparrman (1748).

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