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Luc Montagnier, Who Identified Virus Behind AIDS, Dies at 89

  • French scientist shared 2008 Nobel Prize for isolating HIV
  • ‘The globalization of culture has globalized our parasites’
Luc Montagnier in 1987.Photographer: Francois Lochon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
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Luc Montagnier, the French virologist and Nobel laureate whose co-discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus sparked a global search for an AIDS cure, has died. He was 89.

He died on Feb. 8 at a hospital in a suburb of Paris, the Washington Post reported.