Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who found the virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on monday.
Luc Montagnier, director of the world Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Reancoise Barre-sinoussi of the Institute Pasteur won half the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($ 1.4 million) for discovering the deadly virus. Herald zur Hausen of the University of Duesseldorf and former director of the German Cancer Research Center shared the other half of the prize for work that went against the current dogma as of cervical cancer. “The three laureates have discovered two new viruses of great importance and the result of that had led to an improved global health,” said Jan Andersson, a member of the noble Assembly at sweden’s Karolinska Institute. “We have reached two of the laureates, the two men, and they were both very, very happ,” Anderson said on Monday.
The award marks a vote for Montagnier in a long-running dispute over who discovered and identified the virus, Montagnier or Dr Robert Gallo. Then of the US National Cencer Institute. Montagnier and gallo each accused the other of working with contaminated samples and it took a meeting of two presidents—then Jacques Chirac of France and Ronald Reagan of the Us—to persuade and National Institutes of health and the Institutes Pasteur to share royalties for the discovery.
NAME – Herald zur Hausen
Francoise BarreSinoussi
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier, director of the world Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Reancoise Barre-sinoussi of the Institute Pasteur won half the prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($ 1.4 million) for discovering the deadly virus. Herald zur Hausen of the University of Duesseldorf and former director of the German Cancer Research Center shared the other half of the prize for work that went against the current dogma as of cervical cancer. “The three laureates have discovered two new viruses of great importance and the result of that had led to an improved global health,” said Jan Andersson, a member of the noble Assembly at sweden’s Karolinska Institute. “We have reached two of the laureates, the two men, and they were both very, very happ,” Anderson said on Monday.
The award marks a vote for Montagnier in a long-running dispute over who discovered and identified the virus, Montagnier or Dr Robert Gallo. Then of the US National Cencer Institute. Montagnier and gallo each accused the other of working with contaminated samples and it took a meeting of two presidents—then Jacques Chirac of France and Ronald Reagan of the Us—to persuade and National Institutes of health and the Institutes Pasteur to share royalties for the discovery.
NAME – Herald zur Hausen
Francoise BarreSinoussi
Luc Montagnier
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