Luc Montagnier Birthday

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Luc Montagnier was born on 18 August, 1932

French virologist known for discovering HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus). He had originally named it "lymphadenopathy-associated virus" (LAV) because it was not proven that it caused AIDS. Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen.