Sverker Johansson (born 1961) is a Swedish

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

, textbook author and university professor. He created

Lsjbot Lsjbot is an automated Wikipedia article-creating program, or Wikipedia bot, developed by Sverker Johansson for the Swedish Wikipedia. The bot primarily focuses on articles about living organisms and geographical entities (such as rivers, dams, ...

, a Wikipedia bot.

Biography

Sverker Johansson studied technical physics at the

University of Lund , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

in 1982 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1984. He performed basic military service at

Eksjö Eksjö is a locality and the seat of Eksjö Municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden, with 9,701 inhabitants in 2010. History The city of Eksjö most likely appeared sometime in the Middle Ages when it was the centre for the ''thing'', a region ...

and participated in research and experiments in particle physics and particle acceleration at the

Super Proton Synchrotron The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva, Switzerland. History The SPS was de ...

(SPS) and the Large Electron-Positron Storage Ring (LEP). From November 1990 to June 1992, with the support of the Manne Siegbahn Institute, research was carried out in the field of Neutrino Astronomy Research. After moving to

Jönköping Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland. The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipali ...

in 1992, he devoted himself to linguistics. His book ''Origins of Language, Constraints of Hypotheses, and Convergence Evidence in Language and Communication Studies'', published in 2005, has been reviewed by the ''Journal of Linguistics'' and by American scientists. From 2007 to 2012, Sverker Johansson served as project manager at the

University of Chichester , mottoeng = By teaching, we learn , type = public university, Public , established = 2005 , administrative_staff = 600 , vice_chancellor = Jane Longmore , city = Chichester, West Sussex , country ...

in the south of England. From 2009 to May 2013 he was appointed project manager at

Jönköping University Jönköping University (JU), formerly Högskolan i Jönköping, is a non-governmental Swedish university college located in the city Jönköping in Småland, Sweden. JU is a member of the European University Association (EUA) and The Association ...

, where he met his wife. In 2012, he finished his master's studies in linguistics and presented the theory that

Neanderthals Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an Extinction, extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ag ...

used language in "Essay on Neanderthal Language".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Sverker Swedish physicists 1961 births Living people Swedish writers University of Gothenburg alumni Linguists from Sweden People from Lund