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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