Researching Stefan Thor
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2 people with the Thor surname? In that year Thor was ranked number 3577 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Stefan means "Form of STEVEN. crown" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Stefan Thor on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Stefan Thor and the Thor Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Thor surname in the USA? Thor is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Stefan Thor
Stefan Thor
Stefan Thor (born 1964) is a Swedish professor of biology at Linköping University.
Stefan Thor was born in Uppsala, Sweden. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1988 and a doctorate degree in molecular biology in 1994 at Umeå University, Sweden. Between 1994 and 1999 he was a visiting research fellow at Salk Institute, La Jolla, United States, followed by five years as assistant professor and head of a research group at the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston. In 2004 he was appointed professor of biology at Linköping University, focusing on evolutionary biology and molecular genetics.
Thor’s research team investigates the formation of the nervous system during embryonic development, i.e. its early development from a fertilized egg cell. Using the fruit fly Drosophila as a system model, Thor’s research could be significant in the future in the fight against human neurological diseases.
Thor was the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Swedish award, the Göran Gustafsson Prize in molecular biology, and the annual Eric K Fernström Prize, which heralds young, and successful researchers at six Swedish medical faculties.
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