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Nobel Prize Eludes American in Long-Running HIV Dispute

Posted on October 06, 2008

Luc Montagnier (left) and Robert Gallo. (AP Photo)Half of this year s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Fran oise Barr -Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two French researchers who discovered HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The other half went to Harald zur Hausen, who discovered that papilloma viruses cause cervical cancer.Notably absent from this list is Robert Gallo, who is often credited as the co-discoverer of HIV. But, despite public statements to the contrary, many scientists have sided with Montagnier and his colleagues as the primary discoverers.Gallo, who runs the Institu...

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