Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo 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. He is also an adjunct professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

20 April 1955

Born on the same birth date (20 April 1955): Donald Pettit

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Charles Plumier • Donald Pettit • Irene Lieblich • Killer Mike • Konstantin Lavronenko • Lisa Davis (actress) • Léa Fazer • Mother Angelica • Napoleon III • Olga Karlatos • Peter Chelsom • Philippe Pinel • Tonny Kessler

Born in the same month (April 1955): Anthony Horowitz • David Wu • Donald Pettit • Eddie Jobson • Fabian Hamilton • Joolz Denby • Leslie Jordan • Marit Breivik • Michael O'Keefe • Micheal Ray Richardson • Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda • Nicolas Hulot • Parviz Parastui • Takayoshi Yamano • Zlatko Topčić