# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-claude-chermann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:22:23.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-claude-chermann"
name: "Jean-Claude Chermann"
slug: "jean-claude-chermann"
description: "Jean-Claude Chermann is a French virologist who managed the research team which, by 1983, under the administrative supervision of Luc Montagnier, had discovered the virus associated with AIDS. Whereas second author of this initial publication and obviously involved as team manager in this discovery, he had been omitted from the Nobel Prize attributed to its colleagues. In 2008, as chairman of the support committee for the attribution of the Nobel Prize in medicine to Jean-Claude Chermann, Bernard Le Grelle, a political consultant, campaigned for the official recognition of this oversight with the Nobel committee by bringing together more than 700 doctors, professors and scientists .\nThe virus was named lymphadenopathy-associated virus, or LAV. A year later, a team led by Robert Gallo of the United States confirmed the discovery of the virus, but renamed it human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III)."
tagline: "French virologist, co-discoverer of HIV"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.36
  momentum:             4.095238095238095
  historical:           5.687978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jean-Claude Chermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86-_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جان- كلود شيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جان كلود شيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Chermann"
    title: "Jean-Claude Chermann"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Chermann"
    title: "Jean-Claude Chermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Chermann"
    title: "Jean-Claude Chermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513246"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump