Svante Pääbo Age, Wiki and Bio

Svante Pääbo

Quick Info

ProfessionGeneticist
NationalitySwedish
Date of Birth20/04/1955
Age70 years
BirthplaceStockholm, Sweden

Bio/Wiki

Famous roleWinning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Physical Stats & More

Height187 cm
Eye ColorAsh Blonde
Hair ColorHazel Green

Educational Qualification(s)

EducationPhD In Molecular Biology

Personal Life

Zodiac signAries
HometownStockholm, Sweden
SchoolSwedish Armed Forces Interpreter School
College/UniversityUniversity of Uppsala

Relationships & More

Marital StatusMarried
Marriage Date2008

Family

WifeLinda Vigilant (American geneticist)
Children
Son1
Daughter1
Parents
FatherKarl Sune Detlof Bergström (a 1982 Noble Prize winning biochemist)
MotherKarin Pääbo (biochemist)
Siblings
BrotherRurik Reenstierna (half-brother)

Career

Awards, Honours, Achievements
  • Leibniz Prize by German Science Foundation (1992)
  • Received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Zurich (1992)
  • Max Delbrück Medal in Berlin (1998)
  • Received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Helsinki (2000)
  • Olof Rudbeck Prize by the Upsala Medical Society (2000)
  • Leipzig Science Prize (2003)
  • Ernst Schering Prize by Ernst Schering Foundation (2003)
  • Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine by Swiss Louis-Jeantet Foundation (2005)
  • Virchow Medal by the University of Würzburg (2005)
  • Mentioned in the 100 Most Influential People in the World list by Time (2007)
  • Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana by the Republic of Estonia (2008)
  • Dragutin Gorjanović Kramberger by the Croatian Anthropological Society (2008)
  • Pour le Mérite by the German government (2008)
  • Received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (2008)
  • Kistler Prize by the Foundation For the Future (2009)
  • Theodor Bücher Medal by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (2010)
  • Newcomb-Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2011)
  • Biochemical Analysis Prize by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin (DGKL) (2011)
  • H.M. The King’s Medal by the Swedish government (2012)
  • Received an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (2012)
  • Gruber Genetics Prize by the Gruber Foundation at Yale University (2013)
  • Lomonosov Large Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Received an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Keio Medical Science Prize by the Keio University in Japan (2016)
  • NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Award in Switzerland (2017)
  • Nakasone Award (2018)
  • Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2018)
  • Körber European Science Prize (2018)
  • Nierenberg Prize (2018)
  • Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences in the US (2019)
  • Received an Honorary Doctorate from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (2019)
  • Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London (2019)
  • Japan Prize by the Japanese government (2020)
  • Received an Honorary Doctorate from Yale University (2020)
  • Massry Prize (2021)
  • Prix International Fyssen (2021)
  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2022)

Some Lesser Known Facts

Svante Pääbo worked as a teacher and part-time researcher at the University of California in 1979.
In 1980, he returned to Sweden to pursue a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Uppsala after leaving the University of California.
In 1986, Svante Pääbo authored research papers aiming to find a genetic link between Homo Sapiens and ancient human species.
Svante and his team successfully extracted DNA from a 10,000-year-old Neanderthal body in 1997.
In 2014, Svante published a book called "Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes."
On 3 October 2022, the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden awarded Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize for his work on extinct hominin genomes and human evolution.