Papo was awarded the prize for his research on human evolution and the genomes of extinct hominins. Babu is the director and a scientist of the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He was also the first scientist to successfully sequence the Neanderthal genome.
Svante Babu was shocked when his coworkers pushed him into a basin of water as they celebrated his colleague’s win in this prestigious honour when he announced that he had received the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year.
Since 1999, Babu, who is 67 years old, has held a position at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
After a press conference, Babu’s colleagues at the institute picked him up, brought him to the Max Planck Institute’s interior courtyard, and then violently hurled him over the tank’s wall, causing him to tumble into the water.
Babu cheerfully accepted the directive and started to chuckle while slapping his feet in the water. He was eventually pulled out of the basin by coworkers who had thrown him a life ring. He then gathered his belongings and entered the institute totally soaked.
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