Svante Pääbo receives the Nobel Prize
The world has its first queer Nobel laureate!
The scientific community is eagerly awaiting the awarding of the Nobel Prize. This year, Swede Svante Pääbo has managed to claim the coveted prize in the category of medicine. Pääbo conducts research in Leipzig. His work has focused, among other things, on the life of the Neanderthal man and human evolution.
What is also particularly interesting, however, is that Svante Pääbo came out as bisexual in 2014. Accordingly, his success is also a particularly drastic experience for the community. After all, he is the first openly queer Nobel Prize winner ever!
(For the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned here that there have been queer people in the past who were able to enjoy this award. Unlike Pääbo, however, they did not openly live out their queerness).
Svante Pääbo's work in detail
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