Evolution researcher Svante Pääbo receives the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Created: 2022-12-10, 5:45 p.m

The evolution researcher Svante Pääbo and other winners of this year have been awarded the Nobel Prizes.

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The evolution researcher Svante Pääbo, who works in Leipzig, and other prizewinners this year have been awarded the Nobel Prizes.

The 67-year-old Swede accepted the coveted Nobel medal in the medicine category from the hands of King Carl XVI of Sweden on Saturday in Stockholm.

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Stockholm – At the noble Nobel banquet in the evening, a special place was provided for Pääbo: According to the seating plan, he should sit next to the Swedish heir to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria.

Pääbo is director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

Among other things, he was the first researcher to sequence the Neanderthal genome.

The focus of his work is the search for genetic traces from the distant past, especially those of extinct human forms.

He received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his findings on human evolution.

The names of this year's Nobel Prize winners had already been announced by the respective awarding institutions at the beginning of October.

In addition to Pääbo, ten other personalities were honored in Stockholm: This year's Physics Nobel Prize went to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and the Austrian Anton Zeilinger, the one for chemistry to Morten Meldal, Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, who already received one 21 years ago received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Writer Annie Ernaux received the Nobel Prize in Literature, economists Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig received the Economic Sciences Prize.

Human rights activists from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine had previously been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at another award ceremony in Oslo.

dpa