Nobel Prize winning French Scientist Luc Montagnier, who discovered HIV Virus, passes away at 89

Nobel Prize winning French Scientist Luc Montagnier, who discovered HIV Virus, passes away at 89

Luc Montagnier, the French virologist and Nobel laureate whose co-discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus sparked a global search for an AIDS cure, has died. He was 89. He died on Feb. 8 at a hospital in a suburb of Paris.

The noted virologist won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with fellow researcher Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and the duo shared half of Nobel Prize with Germany’s Harald zur Hausen.

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