HIV, HPV Researchers Honored, But One Scientist Is Left Out

2008/10/10 by Jon Cohen, Martin Enserink · 17 citations
Medicine · #Cervical Cancer and HPV Research #Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) #German #Virology #Medicine #Philosophy

paper · doi:10.1126/science.322.5899.174

published in Science 322(5899), 174-175 (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

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Abstract

The 2008 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Luc Montagnier and FranA§oise BarrA©-Sinoussi for their discovery of the virus that causes AIDS--but not Robert Gallo, whom many consider to have co-discovered the virus with Montagnier. A third prize went to German virologist Harald zur Hausen for finding that human papillomaviruses can cause cervical cancer.

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