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): Alfred Wallis • Brian Michael Bendis • Didier Auriol • Henry G. Sanders • Jack Pickford • Mark Sargent • Maxine Brown (soul singer) • Stuart Dew • Tom Prichard

Born in the same month (August 1932): Anatoly Kartashov (cosmonaut) • Atholl McKinnon • Fernando Arrabal • Izzy Asper • Jim Lange • Lee Hoffman • Robert D. Hales • Sirikit • Tera de Marez Oyens • Vasily Aksyonov • Vladimir Fedoseyev • Yakir Aharonov