Francoise Barre-Sinoussi biography
Date of birth : 1947-07-30
Date of death : -
Birthplace : Paris, France
Nationality : French
Category : Science and Technology
Last modified : 2011-08-12
Credited as : Virologist, discovered HIV, Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008, for work conducted with her colleague and co-Nobel recipient Luc Montagnier in the early 1980s. The two scientists identified a retrovirus, later known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). For years, Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi's discovery of HIV was contested by American researcher Robert C. Gallo, who discovered the same retrovirus independently, but the Nobel Committee made no mention of Gallo. Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi shared their Nobel honors with Harald zur Hausen.
