Where was Pääbo born?
Stockholm
Uppsala
Gothenburg
None of these
Answer
Svante Pääbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1955. His father, Sune Bergström, was also a Nobel laureate, having won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pääbo's mother, Karin Pääbo, was a chemist. Pääbo's parents divorced when he was young, and he was raised by his mother.
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