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Luc Montagnier
Born:
1932
HIV Isolation and Identification. Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier both discovered
HIV, determining that the virus was the cause of AIDS, and making it more
possible to control the disease. Formerly a cancer researcher at the
National Cancer Institute, Gallo now heads the Institute of Human Virology
in Baltimore. Montagnier is the former director of the Centre National de
la Recherché Scientifique (CNRS), and he is the co-founder of the
World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention. Montagnier won the 2008
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery.
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