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BIOLOGIST

Luc Montagnier

1932 - 2022

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Luc Montagnier (US: MON-tən-YAY, MOHN-tahn-YAY, French: [lyk mɔ̃taɲje]; 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 2,833,088 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Luc Montagnier is the 8th most popular biologist (up from 12th in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from France (up from 223rd in 2019) and the 2nd 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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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Luc Montagnier ranks 8 out of 841. Before him are Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Mendel, Alexander Fleming, Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. After him are Ernst Haeckel, James Watson, Karl Landsteiner, Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, and Thomas Hunt Morgan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Luc Montagnier ranks 3. Before him are Umberto Eco and Jacques Chirac. After him are Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Omar Sharif, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, John Williams, and Cesare Maldini. Among people deceased in 2022, Luc Montagnier ranks 5. Before him are Elizabeth II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pelé, and Pope Benedict XVI. After him are Jean-Luc Godard, Jiang Zemin, Vangelis, Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, Leonid Kravchuk, and Francisco Gento.

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In France

Among people born in France, Luc Montagnier ranks 127 out of 6,011. Before him are Hugh Capet (940), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Henri Poincaré (1854), and Nicolas Poussin (1594). After him are Charles VI of France (1368), François Villon (1431), Roman Polanski (1933), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Godfrey of Bouillon (1060), and Sully Prudhomme (1839).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Luc Montagnier ranks 2. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744). After him are Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Charles Richet (1850), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748).

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