BIOLOGIST

Luc Montagnier

1932 - 2022

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luc Montagnier has received more than 2,886,662 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Luc Montagnier is the 20th most popular biologist (down from 8th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from France (down from 127th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Biologist.

Luc Montagnier is most famous for his work in the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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  • 67

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  • 10.21

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  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Luc Montagnier ranks 20 out of 1,097. Before him are Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Crick, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Thomas Henry Huxley, Élie Metchnikoff, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. After him are Robert Brown, Richard Dawkins, Maria Sibylla Merian, Conrad Gessner, Jules Bordet, and Rachel Carson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Luc Montagnier ranks 14. Before him are Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, John Williams, Abebe Bikila, Peter O'Toole, and Cesare Maldini. After him are Miriam Makeba, Fernando Botero, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Víctor Jara, Anouk Aimée, and Sylvia Plath. Among people deceased in 2022, Luc Montagnier ranks 9. Before him are Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope Benedict XVI, Jiang Zemin, Jean-Luc Godard, Vangelis, and Shinzō Abe. After him are Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Leonid Kravchuk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Olivia Newton-John.

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In France

Among people born in France, Luc Montagnier ranks 331 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Valéry (1871), Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Anne of Brittany (1477), Josquin des Prez (1450), Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275), and Colette (1873). After him are Louis VI of France (1081), François Couperin (1668), Sophie Germain (1776), Nadar (1820), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), and Chrétien de Troyes (1135).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Luc Montagnier ranks 4. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Georges Cuvier (1769), and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707). After him are Charles Richet (1850), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781).

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