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". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luc Montagnier is the 30th most popular biologist (down from 20th in 2019), the 362nd most popular biography from France (down from 331st in 2019) and the 5th 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 30 out of 1,097. Before him are Yoshinori Ohsumi, John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Sulston, and Richard Dawkins. After him are Maria Sibylla Merian, Albrecht Kossel, Conrad Gessner, Francis Crick, George Smith, and Trofim Lysenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Luc Montagnier ranks 14. Before him are Omar Sharif, François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, John Williams, and Cesare Maldini. After him are Roh Tae-woo, Abebe Bikila, Anouk Aimée, Peter O'Toole, Sylvia Plath, and Miriam Makeba. Among people deceased in 2022, Luc Montagnier ranks 14. Before him are Vangelis, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Jean-Luc Godard, Leonid Kravchuk, Ben Roy Mottelson, and Francisco Gento. After him are Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mahsa Amini, Vivienne Westwood, and Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Luc Montagnier ranks 362 out of 6,770. Before him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Anne of Brittany (1477), Louis Renault (1843), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Paul Ricœur (1913), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699). After him are Denis Papin (1647), Pierre Boulez (1925), Antonin Artaud (1896), Diane de Poitiers (1499), Héloïse (1101), and François Mauriac (1885).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Luc Montagnier ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748). After him are Charles Richet (1850), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Jean Dausset (1916).

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