Luc Montagnier was a French virologist and joint recipient, with and, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus.
16 Facts About Luc Montagnier
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Luc Montagnier worked as a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
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Luc Montagnier has been criticised by other academics for using his Nobel prize status to "spread dangerous health messages outside his field of knowledge".
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Luc Montagnier studied science at the University of Poitiers, France, and then became an assistant in the Faculty of Sciences at Sorbonne University, where he obtained a PhD.
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In 1960 Luc Montagnier moved to Carshalton, UK as a postdoctoral fellow at the now defunct Virus Research Unit of the Medical Research Council.
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Luc Montagnier developed a soft agar culture medium to culture viruses.
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On request, Luc Montagnier's group had sent a sample of this culture to Gallo, not knowing it contained two viruses.
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On 29 November 2002 issue of Science, Gallo and Luc Montagnier published a series of articles, one of which was co-written by both scientists, in which they acknowledged the pivotal roles that each had played in the discovery of HIV.
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In 1961, Luc Montagnier married Dorothea Ackerman, and they had three children.
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Luc Montagnier died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 8 February 2022, at the age of 89.
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Luc Montagnier was the co-founder of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention and co-directed the Program for International Viral Collaboration.
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Luc Montagnier was the founder and a former president of the Houston-based World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention.
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Luc Montagnier was a member of the Academie Nationale de Medecine.
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Luc Montagnier's allegation came after the United States had launched a probe into whether the virus came from a laboratory.
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Cristal Sumner, of the British Homeopathic Association, said Luc Montagnier's work gave homeopathy 'a true scientific ethos'.
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Luc Montagnier stated that China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University is more "open minded" to his research.