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HIV: A Discovery Opening the Road to Novel Scientific Knowledge and Global Health Improvement (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
BarréSinoussi Françoise
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200901918
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , scientific discovery , theme (computing) , virology , psychoanalysis , medicine , cognitive science , psychology , computer science , operating system
Viruses are the uniting theme of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Françoise Barré‐Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier received their Prize for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and Harald zur Hausen identified that cervical cancer is triggered by papillomaviruses. The Nobel Laureates describe here their research first‐hand.