Svante Paabo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel laureate who specializes in evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome, and in 1997 became founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
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Svante Paabo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.
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20 April 1955 (age 71), Stockholm, Sweden
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20 April 1955 (age 71), Stockholm, Sweden
Works In: Medicine, Lead section, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
In 2022, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Leipzig University Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology LMU Munich University of California, Berkeley University of Zurich
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Leipzig University Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology LMU Munich University of California, Berkeley University of Zurich
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Leipzig University Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology LMU Munich University of California, Berkeley University of Zurich
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