The United Nations has applauded the awarding of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine to two French scientists for their discovery of HIV and for their subsequent pioneering research into the virus.
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier are being honoured for uncovering HIV in the early 1980s, "a prerequisite for the current understanding of the biology of the disease and its antiretroviral treatment," according to the Nobel Assembly.
ussi and Dr. Montagnier on receiving this prestigious award for it gives recognition to the magnitude of HIV and how the AIDS epidemic has shaped our world since its discovery," said Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director.

by Bob Roehr The Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded to French scientists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi for the discovery of HIV.

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hairman and scientific director of the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, won the other half of the prize for his then-controversial finding that the human papilloma virus caused cervical cancer.
m at the University of Maryland were also racing to track down the virus and announced in 1984 that they had discovered a virus they called HTLV-3, with evidence that it caused AIDS.

The 2008 Nobel prize winners have been selected from 197 nominees, 16 more than last year and just short of the record of 199 set in 2005.

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The United Nations has applauded the awarding of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine to two French scientists for their discovery of HIV and for their