Svante Pääbo
Geneticist, Academic
1955 –
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Who is Svante Pääbo?
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm to Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, and his mother, Estonian chemist Karin Pääbo.
He earned his PhD from Uppsala University in 1986. Since 1997, he has been director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
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- Born
- Apr 20, 1955
Stockholm - Also known as
- Svante Paabo
- Parents
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Uppsala University
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on July 23, 2013
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