Many skeptics outside Sweden first encountered Professor Hans Rosling at the European Skeptics Congress 2013 in Stockholm. That was a day engraved in our memories. Rosling had enthralled us with his fascinating presentation of the world’s data. How wrong we were about so many things that we believed about the world. Years earlier, in 2006, Rosling had received the “Enlightener of the Year” award by the Swedish Skeptics Association Vetenskap och Folkbildning (VoF).
It fills us with deep sadness that Hans Rosling died of pancreatic cancer February 7, 2017, at the age of only sixty-eight. He was a professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute who liked to call himself an “edutainer.”