Luc Montagnier

Born

August 18, 1932

Died

February 8, 2022 (aged 89)

Known as

biologist, virologist, researcher, professor, molecular biologist, physician

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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