Luc Montagnier - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2008
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Luc Montagnier

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2008
for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus
Together with: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Harald zur Hausen
Citizenship
FranceFrance
Languages
English, French
date of birth
8/18/1932
place of birth
Chabris
date of death
2/8/2022
place of death
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Lived
89 years

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occupation
  • professor
  • virologist
  • molecular biologist
  • researcher
  • physician
  • biologist
field of work
  • immunobiology
  • HIV
  • immunodeficiency
  • molecular biology
  • virology
educated at
  • Science Faculty of Paris
  • Collège René-Descartes (Châtellerault, Vienne)
  • University of Oxford
employer
  • Queens College
  • National Center for Scientific Research
    • start time: 1960
  • Pasteur Institute
position held
  • Director of Research at CNRS
  • president
    • start time: 1993
    • end time: 2022
member of
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
    • start time: 1990
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 10/28/1996
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1988
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
  • European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine
  • Comité Maurice-Audin
doctoral student
  • Lisa A Chakrabarti
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