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): Andy Serkis • David Brainerd • David Chalmers • Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • Jiří Dienstbier • Justinien Clary • Rose of Lima • Veronica Cartwright

Born in the same month (April 1955): Anthony Horowitz • Charlotte de Turckheim • Christian Gourcuff • Donald Pettit • Eamon Gilmore • Gerrie Coetzee • Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg • Judy Davis • Michael Callen • Mike Stroud (physician) • Pradeep Sarkar • Ricardo Ferrero • Ron Johnson • Takayoshi Yamano • Tim Cochran • Urmas Ott • Yamina Benguigui