October 8, 2008

The Other Forgotten Scientist in the Medical Nobel Prize Story

By Richard Monastersky

Following the announcement on Monday of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, much public attention has focused on whether the prize committee had overlooked Robert C. Gallo, the American virologist who had a longstanding dispute with the French over who discovered the cause of AIDS. Many researchers agree with the prize committee that two French scientists, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier,

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