French virologist Luc MontagnierPARIS, Feb 10 French virologist Luc Montagnier dies at 89 in France, the Monde newspaper reports. The scientist, together with his colleague Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, discovered the human immunodeficiency virus in 1983, for which they received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008. It is noted that Montagnier died on Tuesday, February 8, in Neuilly sur-Seine near Paris. Information about his death, which appeared on social networks on Wednesday, was confirmed on Thursday by the mayor's office of the commune of Hauts-de-Seine, the newspaper notes. .jpg» />World AIDS Day
