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  1. A conversation with French scientist Luc Montagnier
    A conversation with French scientist Luc Montagnier

    with Luc Montagnier on Jul 10, 1997

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Luc Montagnier is a French virologist and the co-founder of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention and co-directs the Program for International Viral Collaboration.

In 1982 he was asked for assistance with establishing the possible underlying retroviral cause of a mysterious new syndrome, AIDS, by Dr. Willy Rozenbaum, a clinician at the Hôpital Bichat hospital in Paris. By 1983, this group of scientists and doctors, led by Montagnier discovered the causative virus. They gave it the name lymphadenopathy-associated virus, or LAV.

Montagnier’s research was conducted at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The identity of the first group to isolate HIV was for many years the subject of an acrimonious dispute between the French, represented by Dr. Montagnier, and American Dr. Robert Gallo.

Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier