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Svante Pääbo

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Svante Pääbo is the 112th most popular biologist (down from 76th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 108th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Biologist. Learn more about Svante Pääbo's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Svante Pääbo ranks 112 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean-Henri Fabre, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim. After him are Hermann Joseph Muller, Vladimir Vernadsky, William John Swainson, Elias Magnus Fries, John B. Calhoun, and Ferdinand Cohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Svante Pääbo ranks 36. Before him are Angus Young, John Hinckley Jr., Olga Korbut, Guillermo Lasso, Mariano Rajoy, and Nina Hagen. After him are Chow Yun-fat, Denis Mukwege, Matteo Zuppi, Lazarus Chakwera, Sergey Shoygu, and Li Keqiang.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 111 out of 1,879. Before him are Axel Munthe (1857), Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1700), Bibi Andersson (1935), Nathan Söderblom (1866), Hjalmar Branting (1860), and Eric XII of Sweden (1339). After him are Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (1943), Olaus Magnus (1490), Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler (1934), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Jenny Lind (1820), and Carl Peter Thunberg (1743).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Svante Pääbo ranks 4. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Tomas Lindahl (1938), and Hugo Theorell (1903). After him are Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Adam Afzelius (1750), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Anders Sparrman (1748), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Jacob Georg Agardh (1813).

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