1955 - Today
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 720,869 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Svante Pääbo is the 415th most popular biologist (up from 452nd in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 435th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Swedish Biologist.
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Among biologists, Svante Pääbo ranks 415 out of 841. Before him are Matthias de l'Obel, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Louis Claude Richard, Peter Artedi, Henrik Steffens, and George Prideaux Robert Harris. After him are Johan Peter Falk, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Martha Chase, James P. Allison, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, and Georg Franz Hoffmann.
1538 - 1616
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 409
1794 - 1865
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 410
1754 - 1821
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 411
1705 - 1735
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 412
1773 - 1845
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 413
1775 - 1810
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 414
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 415
1732 - 1774
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 416
1746 - 1800
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 417
1927 - 2003
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 418
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 419
1748 - 1794
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 420
1760 - 1826
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 421
Among people born in 1955, Svante Pääbo ranks 161. Before him are Horacio Pagani, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Jane Kaczmarek, Judy Davis, and Billy Blanks. After him are Steve Jones, Kelsey Grammer, Cyprien Ntaryamira, Dee Snider, Wang Yang, and Alberto Tarantini.
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 155
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.38
Rank: 156
1955 - 2016
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 157
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 158
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 159
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.32
Rank: 160
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 161
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 162
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 163
1955 - 1994
HPI: 51.13
Rank: 164
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 165
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 166
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.04
Rank: 167
Among people born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 426 out of 1,612. Before him are Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Bernhard Karlgren (1889), Gösta Ekman (1890), Peter Artedi (1705), Jan Eliasson (1940), and Ernst Josephson (1851). After him are Arvid Lindman (1862), John Ljunggren (1919), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Gideon Ståhlberg (1908), and Emma Wiklund (1968).
1878 - 1975
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 420
1889 - 1978
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 421
1890 - 1938
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 422
1705 - 1735
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 423
1940 - Present
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 424
1851 - 1906
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 425
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 426
1862 - 1936
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 427
1919 - 2000
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 428
1885 - 1967
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 429
1866 - 1927
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 430
1908 - 1967
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 431
1968 - Present
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 432
Among biologists born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 18. Before him are Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Pehr Kalm (1716), Daniel Solander (1733), Anders Dahl (1751), Olof Swartz (1760), and Peter Artedi (1705). After him are Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), and Nils Johan Andersson (1821).
1780 - 1851
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 12
1716 - 1779
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 13
1733 - 1782
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 14
1751 - 1789
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 15
1760 - 1818
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 16
1705 - 1735
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 17
1955 - Present
HPI: 51.31
Rank: 18
1743 - 1782
HPI: 50.67
Rank: 19
1898 - 1957
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 20
1813 - 1901
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 21
1856 - 1928
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 22
1801 - 1875
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 23
1821 - 1880
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 24