HIV Virus: Co-discoverer, Luc Montagnier, Is No More!

Prof. Luc Montagnier, the French virologist credited for co-discovering the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, which leads to the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDS disease, died on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at the age of 89 in his home country. But the news only filtered to the public two days after. 
The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, cited the news website, FranceSoir as reporting that Montagnier died in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, “surrounded by his children.” FranceSoir was close to Luc Montagnier in recent years. The Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, Jean-Christophe Fromantin, confirmed the death of Prof. Montagnier to the French News Agency, AFP on Thursday, February 10, 2022. 
The biologist who specialized in virology first began working on the virus in the early 1980s while at France's Pasteur Institute, a non-profit research foundation. Montagnier and his team - including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (who later won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine), examined tissue samples from patients with the mysterious new syndrome. They managed to isolate HIV in the lymph node of an AIDS patient and published news of the discovery in the journal, “Science,” in 1983. In the same edition of the journal, US scientist, Robert Gallo, published similar findings, and later concluded that the virus caused AIDS.
Though the findings of his groundbreaking study on HIV were published way back in 1983, Montagnier and colleagues were only acknowledged 25 years after! Luc Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for their work ...