Nobel-winning virologist Luc Montagnier, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, died in Paris on February 8, 2022.
- The 89-year-old Montagnier, born on August 8, 1932 in central France, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.
- The Frenchman Montagnier shared the award with fellow researcher Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.
- Montagnier and Françoise had shared half of the Nobel with German scientist Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of human papilloma viruses that cause cervical cancer.
- In 1983, a working group led by Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi at the Pasteur Institute isolated the virus that would later become known as HIV and was able to explain how it caused AIDS.
- In 1993, Montagnier co-founded the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, before heading off to the US to work at the Queens College in New York.
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