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The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to French researchers Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi for discovering the AIDS virus and to German virologist Harald zur Hausen for identifying viruses that cause cervical cancer.
The French researchers shared one half of the prize, totaling $1.4 million, for their discovery of the AIDS virus, edging out U.S. virologist Robert Gallo, of the Institute of Human Virology, who provided proof that the virus now known as HIV causes AIDS.See the full content of this document
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Aids Pioneers Win Nobel Prize
Zur Hausen, who in 1984 discovered two types of cancer-causing human papillomavirus, got the rest of the prize...
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