He married Karin Malmberg, a pianist, and was the father of illustrator Cecilia Torudd and Göran Levan, professor of genetics at the University of Gothenburg.
He died in Lund in 1998.yes Albert Levan is best known today for co-authoring the report in 1956 that humans had 46 chromosomes (instead of 48, as previously believed).
This epochal discovery was made by Joe Hin Tjio in Levan's laboratory.
[5] In 1953, a mistake involving mixing HeLa cells with the wrong liquid led Joe Hin Tjio and Albert Levan to develop better techniques for staining and counting chromosomes.
This was important for the study of developmental disorders, such as Down syndrome, that involve the number of chromosomes.