Swede who made numbers and facts entertaining dies at 68
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - This Sept. 7, 2015 file photo shows Swedish statistician Hans Rosling. A Swedish foundation says Hans Rosling, a global health professor known for his ability to make numbers and facts entertaining, has died Tuesday Feb. 8, 2017. He was 68. (Henrik Montgomery/TT via AP, File) (The Associated Press)
A Swedish foundation says Hans Rosling, a global health professor known for his ability to make numbers and facts entertaining, has died. He was 68.
The Gapminder Foundation that Rosling co-founded in 2006 says he died Tuesday in Uppsala. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Karin Dahlman-Wright, head of Sweden's top medical university Karolinska Institute where Rosling was a global health professor, called his lectures "groundbreaking," adding he knew how to "break up old prejudices about the state of health in the world."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Fellow founders Anna R. Ronnlund and Ola Rosling said he decided in 2007 to focus on the foundation which "made him a world-famous public educator, or 'edutainer' as he liked to call it."
His assistant, Fernanda Drumond, said Wednesday that memorial plans would be announced later.