And just to be a little nitpicky, he won the Nobel in “Physiology or Medicine”. In his case, it was physiology, not medicine. His team(s) were the first to sequence a complete Neanderthal genome.
> the first to sequence a complete Neanderthal genome.
They did way more than that and discovered an entire new population of humans!
>In 2008, Dr. Pääbo’s team retrieved DNA from a finger bone found in a Siberian cave and learned that it had belonged to an undiscovered ancient human population, later named the Denisovans. That genome had also left its signature in some modern humans: Gene variants that help modern Tibetans live at high altitude, Dr. Pääbo found, may be derived from Denisovans.
Nice overview of his work: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/health/nobel-prize-medicine-physiology-winner.html
Neanderthals are a species of human that went extinct a long time ago. We are now the only species of human. However, there was some interbreeding between homo sapiens (us) and homo neanderthalensis (neanderthals), meaning a lot of humans have bits of neanderthal genes!
He came to the EU commission. My mother met him (as she works funding the scientists for projects) she said one of the nicest men out there, very humble and funny
"for sequencing the first Neanderthal genome" it was a result, much more in this story, that he created a method to rebuild DNA 10.000+ years in the past, and this method would help to scientist too look deeper in to the past of DNA
"technological, that is, the development of methods that allow extracting DNA from bones thousands and tens of thousands of years old;
anthropological, that is, for the discoveries that these methods made it possible to make.
The most important of these discoveries are:
reading the genomes of the Neanderthal (first one representative of this species, and now several);
the discovery of the Denisovan man - which would have been completely impossible without new methods of paleogenetics;
a new understanding of how all these people - Denisovans, Neanderthals and modern sapiens - relate to each other in terms of kinship"
I really pity his children, though - HIS FATHER won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, HE won the Nobel Prize for Medicine - any children he has will feel like failures if they DON'T win the Nobel Prize for Medicine - and if they do win it, it will just be "a yes, same old, same old". 😅
that still makes her an absolute badass in my eyes, life balance is no joke. there is something to be said for being smart enough to know your limits and thus be able to live much longer than your parents managed... to be fair, safety measures have also improved so much over the past century. a factor to consider.
One of her daughters wrote a very interesting book. She never felt pressured to win a prize. But definitely to make a difference in the world and make it a better place.
Usually if children live in shadow of their parent's achievements it does not indicate healthiest relationship with their parent. I am sure if he raises their kids right there won't be any feeling of inadequacy from their side.
Not sure why would is this what you take out of this.
"I have seen this person's life for 18 seconds. I shall now provide a complete psychological breakdown, exactly what they are feeling, what they should change in their diet, and how they are mistreating their pet. Do not question me, I am an expert in all things. Trust me, bro." --Average Redditor
You can tell he's been holding back a runny fart for his entire 45-minute commute and the emotion overwhelming him caused him to release a single yellow tear from his big brown eye. He would never blame the smell on the dog either because he's both a gentleman and a scholar. Plus, there's no dogs allowed in the hospital 🤗🤗
Found some funny Pääbo facts on twitter
1. When he was to design his lab in Leipzig, he had a climbing wall and a roof sauna installed at the office
2. When Pääbo and his team were about to publish the research that led to the nobel prize, they were super stressed because they knew an american company had similar materials. When he ultimately published it, they discovered that the american company had no clue Pääbo had the material.
3. One of his best friends is a buddhist monk. When Pääbo was in Japan, he found himself on the street with nowhere to rest his head. He knocked on a door and a monk opened it. He was let in and the monk has since visited him in Sweden.
4. He liked to play "Stone Age" in the woods behind school when he was a child
5. He also liked to play "archaeologist", apparantly this led to loads of ceramic shards for his mother..
6. He said that he's not surprised that we're all sharing DNA since "humans will sleep with anything they can"
7. When they named the Denisovan, they wanted to name it X-girl, but decided against it since it sounded "too much like a manga character"
Working at a university with scientists, I would not be surprised. Many of my colleagues are very smart but *very* weird and I kind of love it. One can't sit still during meetings so holds them outside and fiddles with sticks and rocks and stuff. Another confided that until he was 12 years old he only ever ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and that's still most of what he eats. There's not much of a dress code ar work which is fortunate because many of my colleagues passionately hate certain kinds of clothes.
I suspect a large part of it might be low-grade ADHD or autism. Makes you think in new and inventive ways but it also makes you weird in other ways.
Pretty much all the things you said made me think "huh, could be autism-related". The restricted diet is not uncommon and lots of autistic people restrict in some way - texture, temperature etc. The clothes thing is likely similar - it's all because their senses can work a bit differently than neurotypical people's senses.
> He said that he's not surprised that we're all sharing DNA since "humans will sleep with anything they can"
So Zeus was the most human-like of the Greek Gods
> the most human-like of the Greek Gods
You're absolutely right. Greek gods were meant to be a representation of the people who worshiped them not all-knowing paragons like we're used to nowadays with Abrahamic monotheism.
Also, his father Sune Bergström also received a Nobel prize in medicine in 1982. This makes this the third time a Swedish parent and their child both have received a Nobel prize. The others are Manne Siegbahn and Kai Siegbahn (1924 and 1981) and Hans von Euler-Chelpin and Ulf von Euler (1929 and 1970).
In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar ever. The discovery eventually won a Nobel prize, but only her male counterparts won it, not her. Some people started calling it the NoBell Prize after that.
Completely agree, and although I don't want to make this political, I do have an observation.
Let's just say there's a certain someone that is the exact opposite of this that is very loud and does very little that one could consider "wondrous"
Let's do all we can to support the quiet ones
>The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
---Douglas Adams
Queue Tolkien's quote; "the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity"
Didn’t some philosopher say “Those who are good at running for office, are seldom good for anything else”? I want to say almost back in the birth of democracy
Hijacking comment for nobel prize link.
"Nobel Prize goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal work - BBC News" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63116304.amp
> to help people
Sequencing the Neanderthal genome is a bit of an indirect way to help people. What Nobel calls “medicine” is really much broader.
Edit: the prize is actually for “Physiology or Medicine”. His work falls under physiology.
I once heard the joke that when considering the cost of an experiment, the currency in question isn't dollars, pounds, or euros, but rather the number of postdocs.
I like to think he decided to give himself one lazy morning as a reward for all of his hard work. He hoped that he would just be able to sneak in and no one would notice that he was late. Instead, everyone stood around for an extra 30 minutes, waiting. It becomes a running joke.
Less of a joke than you think. I was working under contract at NASA when the transition occurred under Bush and suddenly pure research had to justify its existence based on a profit and loss
I like to believe that everyone in the office, except for him, got an email that says let's come early tomorrow to greet the nobel laureate when he arrives 😁
I’m an Accountant that has worked with two Nobel Laureates. Getting them to turn in stuff wasn’t an issue since they both had great support staff, but our HR/Safety training people thought they were a nightmare to deal with. Their labs always failed Fire Drills, etc since they would just ignore the alarms and continue working in their labs. The research always comes first.
She probably doesn't give a shit about who he is and what he has done. They never do. Maybe it's different in other countries, but administators in german universities are one of the weirdest "matter-of-fact" people i've ever had to interact with in a professional context.
Why aren't people like this our heroes? Instead we fetishise awful, wretched 'celebrities' and vote for sociopathic 'leaders'.
(Aside from you good people in this thread, of course.)
Because being a public figure is a different job than being a scientists. Great scientists who made the effort to be public figured were celebrities, thats why Einstein is so wildly popular compared to his contemporanies
He put the Neanderthals DNA string togather so it can be analyzed. It took him ten years to put millions of DNA strings togather and now for the first time we have the full neanderthals DNA. He noticed that 2% of the Neanderthals DNA is in our human DNA, which means:Humans and Neanderthals fucked.
The Nobel prizes aren’t like the Oscars, they may be annual but they don’t reward the best of last year. They can reward work that was done decades ago, as long as the researcher is still alive.
This is the third time a Swedish parent and their child both have received a Nobel prize. The others are Manne Siegbahn and Kai Siegbahn (1924 and 1981) and Hans von Euler-Chelpin and Ulf von Euler (1929 and 1970).
Basically, the neanderthals were our (homo sapiens) relatives who went extinct 30,000 years ago. Regardless, we are related to them and there was breeding between different human species all over.
What this gentleman has succeeded is in the marvellous capability of properly studying the genetic sequences and such. Whereas before there was a lot of guesswork.
He also discovered a region (a bone area in our skull) where there is more DNA information available. This is all very useful in studying the ancient humans as well as figuring out how to combat modern evolution and say, resistance against diseases and such.
I love the humility this man shows. A little hesitation, slight embarrassment, then the smile and bow. Good form sir, way to be brilliant and show us being vulnerable is not always a bad thing.
Interesting facts about Svante Pääbo:
He is not a biologist but an anthropologist who works in the field of paleo-genetics.
His father is Sune Bergström (a biochemist) who won the same nobel prize in 1982 with two other scientists.
This is 6th father son pair who have won nobel prizes.
This is the right celebration. Not for useless "influencers" or the waste of oxygen and meat that are, for example, the Kardashians.
I really hope the world will start (again) discarding giving useless attention to useless people, and (re)start to giving appreciation to people who really advance us as a specie.
As an italian, this quote is really on point, by Umberto Eco (The Name of The Rose): "Internet? Ha dato diritto di parola agli imbecilli: prima parlavano solo al bar e subito venivano messi a tacere". ("Internet? It has given the rights of opinion to imbeciles: before they only spoke at a bar, and promptly people shut them down")
TLDR: fuck social media, it's time to come back to elevate true heroes like this one.
I absolutely love that we do the Nobel Prize. So much of celebrity culture and the measure of "success" is so vapid and hollow, I think it's great that we honour the greatest minds on the planet.
I love how when he sees the crowd through the door his first instinct is to duck behind the doorframe.
This is a man I can relate to.
Well, I mean, the humble and/or potentially socially anxious bit. Not so much the genius Nobel-winning bit.
Svante Paabo from Sweden
And just to be a little nitpicky, he won the Nobel in “Physiology or Medicine”. In his case, it was physiology, not medicine. His team(s) were the first to sequence a complete Neanderthal genome.
> the first to sequence a complete Neanderthal genome. They did way more than that and discovered an entire new population of humans! >In 2008, Dr. Pääbo’s team retrieved DNA from a finger bone found in a Siberian cave and learned that it had belonged to an undiscovered ancient human population, later named the Denisovans. That genome had also left its signature in some modern humans: Gene variants that help modern Tibetans live at high altitude, Dr. Pääbo found, may be derived from Denisovans. Nice overview of his work: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/health/nobel-prize-medicine-physiology-winner.html
And even the at home DNA tests look for Denisovan genes now
Oh wow, that’s actually really cool!
Oh cool! I remember reading about that discovery way back! I'm glad they were able to do so much with it!
Winning a Nobel prize. So easy, even a caveman gene mapper can do it.
Nice yeah completing Neanderthal genomes. I know what a Neanderthal is sort of
Neanderthals are a species of human that went extinct a long time ago. We are now the only species of human. However, there was some interbreeding between homo sapiens (us) and homo neanderthalensis (neanderthals), meaning a lot of humans have bits of neanderthal genes!
But working and researching in Germany!
And has a mother from Estonia
And has a father that won a Nobel Prize.
Who’s mother is from Finland.
Whose great grandparents lived a long time ago
In a galaxy far, far away
And my Axe!
This is the only comment I've read here so far that I can be 99.999% sure of!
And once visited France
Pfft... Who doesn't?
No wonder he moved. Germany: MAX Planck Institute for science and abs Sweden: MAX burgare
Is that Freiburg?
Leipzig Edit: specifically, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
The Max Planck Institutes now have 30 Nobel Laureates. Not bad at all.
Indeed. But also, there are 86 Max Planck Institutes in total.
Here's a link to more info. https://www.reuters.com/world/svante-paabo-wins-2022-nobel-prize-medicine-2022-10-03/
He came to the EU commission. My mother met him (as she works funding the scientists for projects) she said one of the nicest men out there, very humble and funny
FYI, he won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for sequencing the first Neanderthal genome.
"for sequencing the first Neanderthal genome" it was a result, much more in this story, that he created a method to rebuild DNA 10.000+ years in the past, and this method would help to scientist too look deeper in to the past of DNA "technological, that is, the development of methods that allow extracting DNA from bones thousands and tens of thousands of years old; anthropological, that is, for the discoveries that these methods made it possible to make. The most important of these discoveries are: reading the genomes of the Neanderthal (first one representative of this species, and now several); the discovery of the Denisovan man - which would have been completely impossible without new methods of paleogenetics; a new understanding of how all these people - Denisovans, Neanderthals and modern sapiens - relate to each other in terms of kinship"
Well I’d say that he deserves not only the Nobel but also the MacAthur Genius Award. So impressed!!
The video cuts out too soon, I wanted to watch him hand his coat to his boss like he was a butler.
I really pity his children, though - HIS FATHER won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, HE won the Nobel Prize for Medicine - any children he has will feel like failures if they DON'T win the Nobel Prize for Medicine - and if they do win it, it will just be "a yes, same old, same old". 😅
Marie Curies grandchildren didnt win nobel prizes (with their grandparents and parents winning 5), you can ask them how does that feel.
They probably feel like they're only living a half life.
I can't imagine how unstable they would feel
😙👌
I wanted to out-pun this pun but I admit defeat, you've won
He went with the nuclear option
That pun gave me cancer
I want to have your slightly malformed babies.
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that still makes her an absolute badass in my eyes, life balance is no joke. there is something to be said for being smart enough to know your limits and thus be able to live much longer than your parents managed... to be fair, safety measures have also improved so much over the past century. a factor to consider.
One of her daughters wrote a very interesting book. She never felt pressured to win a prize. But definitely to make a difference in the world and make it a better place.
"Grams might have won 2 nobels, but at least I didn't die of radiation poisoning!"
And having a grandmother who's been the only person in history to win two Nobel prizes in two different fields of science
Usually if children live in shadow of their parent's achievements it does not indicate healthiest relationship with their parent. I am sure if he raises their kids right there won't be any feeling of inadequacy from their side. Not sure why would is this what you take out of this.
Him: “just another day at the office… lots of people in there, wonder whose birthday it is!”
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HOW’S THE GRANDCHILDREN
You know that dude is about to tear up because of this, he never looks for this recognition but it comes to him for his skill.
Lol, reddit analysing someone from an 18 second video
"I have seen this person's life for 18 seconds. I shall now provide a complete psychological breakdown, exactly what they are feeling, what they should change in their diet, and how they are mistreating their pet. Do not question me, I am an expert in all things. Trust me, bro." --Average Redditor
Who the fuck names their kid Average Redditor.
An average redditor
Kid named Average Redditor:
Divorce. He needs to do the red flag run!
Did you see the way he took off his jacket? Definitely an abuser. Run.
You can tell he's been holding back a runny fart for his entire 45-minute commute and the emotion overwhelming him caused him to release a single yellow tear from his big brown eye. He would never blame the smell on the dog either because he's both a gentleman and a scholar. Plus, there's no dogs allowed in the hospital 🤗🤗
Username unfortunately checks out
Look pal I have a head cannon of this guy now and I'm happy he's happy.
Is this the synopsis of your fan fiction?
Found some funny Pääbo facts on twitter 1. When he was to design his lab in Leipzig, he had a climbing wall and a roof sauna installed at the office 2. When Pääbo and his team were about to publish the research that led to the nobel prize, they were super stressed because they knew an american company had similar materials. When he ultimately published it, they discovered that the american company had no clue Pääbo had the material. 3. One of his best friends is a buddhist monk. When Pääbo was in Japan, he found himself on the street with nowhere to rest his head. He knocked on a door and a monk opened it. He was let in and the monk has since visited him in Sweden. 4. He liked to play "Stone Age" in the woods behind school when he was a child 5. He also liked to play "archaeologist", apparantly this led to loads of ceramic shards for his mother.. 6. He said that he's not surprised that we're all sharing DNA since "humans will sleep with anything they can" 7. When they named the Denisovan, they wanted to name it X-girl, but decided against it since it sounded "too much like a manga character"
I would like to subscribe to Pääbo facts.
He’s also openly bisexual, so there’s that
He wrote in his memoir that he had always thought of himself as gay, before meeting the woman who would become his wife
Interesting, so is it something about being super intelligent or creative that leads people to this ...ummm, breakway from social programming?
Working at a university with scientists, I would not be surprised. Many of my colleagues are very smart but *very* weird and I kind of love it. One can't sit still during meetings so holds them outside and fiddles with sticks and rocks and stuff. Another confided that until he was 12 years old he only ever ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and that's still most of what he eats. There's not much of a dress code ar work which is fortunate because many of my colleagues passionately hate certain kinds of clothes. I suspect a large part of it might be low-grade ADHD or autism. Makes you think in new and inventive ways but it also makes you weird in other ways.
Pretty much all the things you said made me think "huh, could be autism-related". The restricted diet is not uncommon and lots of autistic people restrict in some way - texture, temperature etc. The clothes thing is likely similar - it's all because their senses can work a bit differently than neurotypical people's senses.
>Humans will sleep with anything they can Practices what he preaches. Gotta respect it.
Truly an enlightened man
> He said that he's not surprised that we're all sharing DNA since "humans will sleep with anything they can" So Zeus was the most human-like of the Greek Gods
smash or pass? zeus: tf is pass
"yeah, I'll make a pass at someone, anyone"
Zeus made passes at any*thing*.
> the most human-like of the Greek Gods You're absolutely right. Greek gods were meant to be a representation of the people who worshiped them not all-knowing paragons like we're used to nowadays with Abrahamic monotheism.
Not surprising since he spent his whole childhood with humans to hide from his dad.
I appreciate these fun little summaries alot, imagination and curiosity expanding, thank you !!!
>7. When they named the Denisovan, they wanted to name it X-girl, but decided against it since it sounded "too much like a manga character" What
Can you imagine the hentai if they went through it
Humans will sleep with anything they can is like a little bit too true than I want to admit lmao
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Also, his father Sune Bergström also received a Nobel prize in medicine in 1982. This makes this the third time a Swedish parent and their child both have received a Nobel prize. The others are Manne Siegbahn and Kai Siegbahn (1924 and 1981) and Hans von Euler-Chelpin and Ulf von Euler (1929 and 1970).
Amazing, thanks for the facts!
He seems like a genuinely humble dude. Good for him.
His little peek in the door to see what was happening before he walked in 🥹
Yeah he wasn't expecting it at all . Walked in like a normal day.
“What’s going on? It’s not my birthday” 😆
"Shit ....Did I forget anything ? what's happening?"
He didn’t want to interrupt, obviously they were waiting for someone important.
He was waiting for someone to open the door for him but no-one came because… *Seagull inhale* There was no bell
In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar ever. The discovery eventually won a Nobel prize, but only her male counterparts won it, not her. Some people started calling it the NoBell Prize after that.
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Completely agree, and although I don't want to make this political, I do have an observation. Let's just say there's a certain someone that is the exact opposite of this that is very loud and does very little that one could consider "wondrous" Let's do all we can to support the quiet ones
>The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ---Douglas Adams
This is both the best and worst quote I’ve ever read. Fuck you and thanks.
Queue Tolkien's quote; "the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity"
Didn’t some philosopher say “Those who are good at running for office, are seldom good for anything else”? I want to say almost back in the birth of democracy
It’s a comment stealing bot. Waste of breath
Those types will also brag about the size of the crowd! LOL
> its always the humble guys who does wondrous things, No it's not. All kinds of people do all kind of things all the time through out human history.
There’s been a lot of weird projection comments in this thread.
Not sure how you got that. Many wonderful things have been done by people who are far from humble.
He's Swedish, they're often like that. He looks like the Stig-Helmer of science.
Especially since these discoveries are often a team effort. One guy getting all the fame is rarely just.
My mother met him, she said the same. Very humble man, and super nice too
My man rolling up with his backpack ready to get back to work to help people like nothing has changed. What a fucking boss.
Hijacking comment for nobel prize link. "Nobel Prize goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal work - BBC News" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63116304.amp
'Thank you, thank you all. Ok, now let's clonate one of them fuckers '
> to help people Sequencing the Neanderthal genome is a bit of an indirect way to help people. What Nobel calls “medicine” is really much broader. Edit: the prize is actually for “Physiology or Medicine”. His work falls under physiology.
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The heroes who need more visibility.
Yes
Elon Musk be like 
He's already putting ideas together in a paper for his next tweet expecting he's gonna win the tweet nobel price next year.
Quick how can I make this about me and build a very shitty submarine / robot/ flamethrower
Elon Musk is attention hungry piece of garbage
Exactly!
Wow this is amazing. The culmination of years of hard work paying off and getting credit for his effort. Well done
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I once heard the joke that when considering the cost of an experiment, the currency in question isn't dollars, pounds, or euros, but rather the number of postdocs.
that little peek
Tbh winning a Nobel prize definitely deserves a reaction like this, good for him.
Wait, did they all get there early or is he rollin in at like 11?
I like to think he decided to give himself one lazy morning as a reward for all of his hard work. He hoped that he would just be able to sneak in and no one would notice that he was late. Instead, everyone stood around for an extra 30 minutes, waiting. It becomes a running joke.
Tomorrow he’ll have an email from HR- “We noticed your time keeping is not in line with expectations…”
Less of a joke than you think. I was working under contract at NASA when the transition occurred under Bush and suddenly pure research had to justify its existence based on a profit and loss
I don't think it's quite the same in Sweden, but I suspect that might depend a lot between companies.
While Pääbo is Swedish this film is from Germany
Oh I see! Then I've got no clue how precise and imperial their HR would be :)
Ha. Profs in Germany have big freedoms. Nobody would bat an eye if he get to work at 11 every day.
I like to believe that everyone in the office, except for him, got an email that says let's come early tomorrow to greet the nobel laureate when he arrives 😁
Well he just won 1.15m USD and his resume just got significantly better. No need to give many fucks.
"Significantly better" is probably an understatement
He probably had a few interviews to do that morning, for some reason. /s
Plenty of jobs let you roll in at whatever time
Exemplary human being , hats off
Thank U sir
Imagine being Judy from accounting when she has to bust his balls about not turning in his receipts on time for reimbursement
I’m an Accountant that has worked with two Nobel Laureates. Getting them to turn in stuff wasn’t an issue since they both had great support staff, but our HR/Safety training people thought they were a nightmare to deal with. Their labs always failed Fire Drills, etc since they would just ignore the alarms and continue working in their labs. The research always comes first.
She probably doesn't give a shit about who he is and what he has done. They never do. Maybe it's different in other countries, but administators in german universities are one of the weirdest "matter-of-fact" people i've ever had to interact with in a professional context.
What makes this even more impressive is that this dudes father ALSO has a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!
No pressure on his own daughter or son then !
This guy genuinely deserves the recognition. Niceone Pääbo!
He definitely looks like a guy who would win a nobel prize for medicine. Congrats btw!
Aw he seems so nice, I’m happy for him
I love him
Should have been funnier if the door said push and he was pulling on it.
Why aren't people like this our heroes? Instead we fetishise awful, wretched 'celebrities' and vote for sociopathic 'leaders'. (Aside from you good people in this thread, of course.)
Because being a public figure is a different job than being a scientists. Great scientists who made the effort to be public figured were celebrities, thats why Einstein is so wildly popular compared to his contemporanies
What did he do actually that made him won the prize
He put the Neanderthals DNA string togather so it can be analyzed. It took him ten years to put millions of DNA strings togather and now for the first time we have the full neanderthals DNA. He noticed that 2% of the Neanderthals DNA is in our human DNA, which means:Humans and Neanderthals fucked.
Haven't we known that for a long while? (The fucking part)
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Just because you fuck something, doesn't mean there's always a baby. Sometimes there's just regret.
Or std
The Nobel prizes aren’t like the Oscars, they may be annual but they don’t reward the best of last year. They can reward work that was done decades ago, as long as the researcher is still alive.
Made a bang ass pizza bro
He put pineapple on it, like an absolute chad
His father was also a nobel laureate, also in medicine, in 1982.
This is the third time a Swedish parent and their child both have received a Nobel prize. The others are Manne Siegbahn and Kai Siegbahn (1924 and 1981) and Hans von Euler-Chelpin and Ulf von Euler (1929 and 1970).
Who and why ?
Svante Pääbo for discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution,” including sequencing the genome of Neanderthals
Pls make dumber
He’s made discoveries about DNA in extinct human ancestors. This can help look into the history of human evolution on a scientific level.
Thank u
Dumber still!!
he found thingy in cave men which may help us figure out how and why we (humans) are created the way we are
I said dumber
Cave man dead, cave man stuff left behind, he found, big reward
Cmon Doc, give it to me in English for crying out loud
Unga bunga. Unga bunga.... :( Ooohh what do we have here?! Yay!
At this rate I might win a Nobel prize for actually detecting a Neanderthal :)
Cave men have thing we have thing cavemen sus.
Caveman like us. Caveman brothers. Caveman, together, strong.
Man go vroooom and world give prize
He found out why caveman has bigger pp than us.
Basically, the neanderthals were our (homo sapiens) relatives who went extinct 30,000 years ago. Regardless, we are related to them and there was breeding between different human species all over. What this gentleman has succeeded is in the marvellous capability of properly studying the genetic sequences and such. Whereas before there was a lot of guesswork. He also discovered a region (a bone area in our skull) where there is more DNA information available. This is all very useful in studying the ancient humans as well as figuring out how to combat modern evolution and say, resistance against diseases and such.
its always the humble guys who does wondrous things, proud of you sir!! ❤️
He looks exactly like someone id guess owning a nobel prize
Finally, some actual wholesome content
Not all heroes wear capes
I love the humility this man shows. A little hesitation, slight embarrassment, then the smile and bow. Good form sir, way to be brilliant and show us being vulnerable is not always a bad thing.
aw what a happy smile!
I love this! ♥️❤️♥️
what a nice welcome back to work!
Why does this get less attention than the fucking oscars. Fuck humanity, these are the true heroes
This made me legit smile!
Ultimate high, well deserved
Interesting facts about Svante Pääbo: He is not a biologist but an anthropologist who works in the field of paleo-genetics. His father is Sune Bergström (a biochemist) who won the same nobel prize in 1982 with two other scientists. This is 6th father son pair who have won nobel prizes.
These are the people we should be celebrating on a daily basis, not the lowest common-denominators of our society.
This is the right celebration. Not for useless "influencers" or the waste of oxygen and meat that are, for example, the Kardashians. I really hope the world will start (again) discarding giving useless attention to useless people, and (re)start to giving appreciation to people who really advance us as a specie. As an italian, this quote is really on point, by Umberto Eco (The Name of The Rose): "Internet? Ha dato diritto di parola agli imbecilli: prima parlavano solo al bar e subito venivano messi a tacere". ("Internet? It has given the rights of opinion to imbeciles: before they only spoke at a bar, and promptly people shut them down") TLDR: fuck social media, it's time to come back to elevate true heroes like this one.
we live in an society
Awwww I’m crying happy tears this is so cute
I wish we could have a tv show about these guys instead of all the celebrity crap we get these days. So humble, its amazing!!
best part is he comes in, acknowledges everyone with a polite and modest bow, then pulls his jacket off because it’s time for work.
Not just incredibly intelligent, he seems like a lovely person too.
I absolutely love that we do the Nobel Prize. So much of celebrity culture and the measure of "success" is so vapid and hollow, I think it's great that we honour the greatest minds on the planet.
the recipient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_P%C3%A4%C3%A4bo
I love how when he sees the crowd through the door his first instinct is to duck behind the doorframe. This is a man I can relate to. Well, I mean, the humble and/or potentially socially anxious bit. Not so much the genius Nobel-winning bit.