Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. He rose to international celebrity status after producing a Ted Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth27 July 1948
CountrySweden
numbers ideas understanding
The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.
country motivation inspiration
I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.
best medical school shown taught tried
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
people
You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.