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Svante Pääbo

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2022
for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
Citizenship
Sweden Sweden
Languages
English, Swedish, German
date of birth
4/20/1955
place of birth
Oscar Parish, Stockholm
Age
71 years
member of
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 2/13/2004
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2004
  • Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1/1/1999
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1/1/2001
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1/1/1998
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 12/2/2021
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2011
  • Royal Society
    • start time: 1/1/2016
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 11/17/2015
  • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • start time: 5/10/2012
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
field of work
  • human evolutionary genetics
  • genetics
  • evolutionary genetics
  • paleogenetics
  • evolutionary biology
  • evolutionary anthropology
occupation
  • biologist
  • geneticist
  • evolutionary biologist
  • university teacher
work location
  • Leipzig
employer
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
educated at
  • Uppsala University
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