His contributions to virology are immense. 😥 engineering
French media first reported that he had died at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine on February 8th Tuesday but local authorities officially confirmed his death on Thursday.
Montagnier jointly won half of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine with fellow French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi for their role in discovering the virus. The other half was won by German cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen. Montagnier was born in 1932 in France and gained a Ph.D. in virology at the University of Paris before working at Paris's Faculty of Sciences in 1955. He moved to the Pasteur Institute in 1972 and directed the Viral Oncology Unit, before moving to Queens College, the City University of New York in 1997.
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