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Luc Montagnier

1932 – 2022 · aged 90

French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)

Born
18 Aug 1932 · Chabris
Died
8 Feb 2022 · Neuilly-sur-Seine

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 18 Aug 1932BornBorn in Chabris
  2. 1963AwardCNRS bronze medal
  3. 1973AwardCNRS silver medal
  4. 1984AwardKnight of the Legion of Honour
  5. 1986AwardCommander of the National Order of Merit
  6. 1986AwardKörber European Science Prize
  7. 1986AwardLasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
  8. 1986AwardLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
  9. 1986AwardScheele Award
  10. 1987AwardCanada Gairdner International Award
  11. 1988AwardJapan Prize
  12. 1989AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Bologna
  13. 1991AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
  14. 1993 – 2022RolePresident
  15. 8 Feb 2022DiedDied in Neuilly-sur-Seine

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1932 – 2022).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Luc Montagnier (US: MON-tən-YAY, MOHN-tahn-YAY, French: [lyk mɔ̃taɲe]; 18 August 1932 – 8 February 2022) was a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He worked as a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

In 2017, Montagnier was criticised by other academics for using his Nobel prize status to "spread dangerous health messages outside of his field of knowledge". During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier promoted the lab-leak theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created and escaped from a laboratory. Such a claim has been rejected by other virologists.

Text from the Wikipedia article Luc Montagnier, CC BY-SA 4.0

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