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): Adolf Hitler • Adolf Schärf • Brandon Belt • Dave Bancroft • Dwight Gustafson • Felix Baumgartner • Irene Lieblich • Jason Behrendorff • Johannes Agricola • Justinien Clary • Matthias Kuhle • N. Chandrababu Naidu • Robert Byrne (chess player) • Rose of Lima • Tito Puente

Born in the same month (April 1955): Akira Toriyama • Bernard Longley • Charlotte de Turckheim • Eddie Jobson • Kate Mulgrew • Kurt Bodewig • Lesley Garrett • Leslie Jordan • Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda • Pradeep Sarkar • Ricardo Ferrero • Ron Johnson • Takayoshi Yamano • Zlatko Topčić