Biography
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 he 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 conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created and escaped from a laboratory. Such a claim has been rejected by other virologists.
Filmography
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Movies 4
self 3
Hold-Up (2020)
House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic (2009)
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GenderMale
Birthday1932-08-18
Deathday2022-02-08 (89 years old)
Birth NameLuc Antoine Montagnier
ChildrenFrancine Montagnier, Jean-Luc Montagnier, Anne-Marie Montagnier
CitizenshipsFrance
ResidencesFrance, France, New York City, United States of America, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Awardsemeritus, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, Japan Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, CNRS silver medal, Körber European Science Prize, Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the National Order of Merit, Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Scheele Award, Honorary doctor of the University of Liège, EMBO Membership, King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna, honorary doctor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, honorary doctor of the University of Bucharest, honorary doctor of Saint Joseph University, honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University, honorary doctorate at the Laval University, honorary doctor of the University of Athens, honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal
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