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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

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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. She mandatorily retired from active research on 31 August 2015, and fully retired by some time in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is the 55th most popular biologist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from France (up from 631st in 2019) and the 8th 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 55 out of 1,097. Before her are Tomas Lindahl, Irwin Rose, Charles Richet, Lazzaro Spallanzani, André Michel Lwoff, and Karl Ernst von Baer. After her are François Jacob, Roger Guillemin, Theodor Schwann, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, and Jean Dausset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ranks 32. Before her are Glenn Close, Robert Kiyosaki, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Salman Rushdie, Takeshi Kitano, and Gerd Binnig. After her are Paco de Lucía, France Gall, Michael Levitt, Michael Porter, Josep Borrell, and Linda B. Buck.

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In France

Among people born in France, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ranks 562 out of 6,770. Before her are Paul Delaroche (1797), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), André Maurois (1885), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Gaspard II de Coligny (1519), and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814). After her are Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), François Jacob (1920), Hilary of Poitiers (315), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Maurice Allais (1911), and Paul Langevin (1872).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ranks 8. Before her are Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), and André Michel Lwoff (1902). After her are François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Jean Dausset (1916), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748).

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