Nobel for AIDS virus discovery, finally

摘要

Two French virologists who discovered HIV share this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with a German oncovirologist who showed that human papil-loma virus (HPV) causes cervical cancer. The Nobel Prize in Physics went to two Japanese researchers and a Japanese-born American for their work on symmetry breaking in subatomic physics. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier identified the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in 1983, while working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They originally called it lymphadenopathy associated virus (LAV).