Luc Montagnier

✶August 18, 1932

†February 8, 2022

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About their life

Luc Montagnier was a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He worked as a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)

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