The most prestigious awards in the world of science Nobel Prizes As of today, the winners have been announced. Scientists, who have achieved great success with their studies in their own fields, manage to engrave their achievements and discoveries in history with the Nobel Prizes.

The first field whose winner was announced in the Nobel Prizes was Physiology or Medicine. This year Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner, Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo it happened. It was the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome for the work that earned Pääbo the Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Committee statement on Pääbo and his work:

“This year’s Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, Svante Pääbo, has achieved the seemingly impossible thanks to his groundbreaking research: sequencing the genome of Neanderthals, an extinct relative of modern humans.

Pääbo’s discoveries, created a new understanding of our evolutionary history.”

According to many scientists, it comes from the bones of the Neanderthals, which existed tens of thousands of years ago. Obtaining DNA was quite difficult, if not impossible. But Pääbo was able to extract DNA from bones and analyze this DNA using current technology and his own methods.

Who is Svante Paabo?

Born on April 20, 1955 in Stockholm, Svante Pääbo was the son of chemist Karin Pääbo and biochemist Sune Bergström. Father Sune Bergström, who died in 2004, was awarded the same Nobel Prize his son won in 1982.

Svante Pääbo, PhD. at Uppsala University He won in 1986. Pääbo announced the work that earned him a Nobel Prize in 2006, and was included in Time’s list of “100 Most Influential Names of the Year” in 2007.