Luc Montagnier

Luc Montagnier 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.

18 August 1932

Born on the same birth day (18 August): Ernest Noel • Hans van Mierlo • Jack Pickford • Jason Furman • John Russell, 1st Earl Russell • Kaitlin Olson • Liviu Librescu • Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon • Ricardo Villa • Stuart Dew

Born in the same month (August 1932): Andy Bathgate • Charles Wood (playwright) • Edward Hardwicke • Gerald Carr (astronaut) • Jean-Jacques Sempé • John Gomery • Lamar Hunt • Liang Congjie • Mark Russell • Maurice Rabb Jr. • Tera de Marez Oyens • Yakir Aharonov