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'''Luc Montagnier'''(1932-), a [[physician]] and [[virology|virologist]] is best known as discoverer, or co-discoverer of the [[human immunodeficiency virus]]. The co-discovery issue involved a bitter dispute with [[Robert Gallo]]. | '''Luc Montagnier'''(1932-), a [[physician]] and [[virology|virologist]] is best known as discoverer, or co-discoverer of the [[human immunodeficiency virus]]. The co-discovery issue involved a bitter dispute with [[Robert Gallo]]. | ||
Montagnier shared in the 2008 [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] with two other virologists | Montagnier shared in the 2008 [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] with two other virologists; Gallo was conspicuously not one of them. | ||
He works at the French [[Institut Pasteur]]. | He works at the French [[Institut Pasteur]]. |
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Luc Montagnier(1932-), a physician and virologist is best known as discoverer, or co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus. The co-discovery issue involved a bitter dispute with Robert Gallo.
Montagnier shared in the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with two other virologists; Gallo was conspicuously not one of them.
He works at the French Institut Pasteur.