Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
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French virologist who identified HIV in 1983 and won the 2008 Nobel Prize for it. Spent his career bouncing between the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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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.
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