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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

1947 - Today

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (French: [fʁɑ̃swaz baʁesinusi] ; born 30 July 1947) is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division (French: Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales) and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Born in Paris, Barré-Sinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. In 2008, Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Françoise Barré-Sinoussi has received more than 363,428 page views. Her biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is the 43rd most popular biologist (down from 39th in 2019), the 631st most popular biography from France (down from 596th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Biologist.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is most famous for being the first person to isolate the HIV virus.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ranks 43 out of 1,097. Before her are Dian Fossey, Karl von Frisch, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Karl Ernst von Baer. After her are Christian de Duve, Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, Richard Owen, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ranks 36. Before her are Robert Kiyosaki, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Glenn Close, Farrah Fawcett, Herman Van Rompuy, and Tom Clancy. After her are Gloria Gaynor, Sam Neill, Rob Rensenbrink, Gerd Binnig, Dick Advocaat, and Bruno Latour.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ranks 631 out of 6,770. Before her are Guy Debord (1931), Marie of Anjou (1404), Paul Claudel (1868), Louis Renault (1877), Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), and Siméon Denis Poisson (1781). After her are Léon Walras (1834), Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837), Gaston Leroux (1868), Paul Doumer (1857), Albert Fert (1938), and Chlodomer (495).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ranks 7. Before her are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748). After her are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), and André Michel Lwoff (1902).

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