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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 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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  • 28

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Svante Pääbo ranks 415 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Svante Pääbo ranks 161Before 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.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 426 out of 1,612Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 18Before 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).