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): Brian Aldiss • Christian Slater • Hifikepunye Pohamba • Madelaine Petsch • Mike LaValliere • Robert Redford • Ross McCormack

Born in the same month (August 1932): Dallin H. Oaks • Fernando Arrabal • Jean-Jacques Sempé • Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn • Luis Salvadores • Maurice Rabb Jr. • Mel Tillis • Peter O'Toole • Tam Dalyell