Harald zur Hausen

Harald zur Hausen (11 March 1936 – 28 May 2023) was a German virologist and professor. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for his discoveries on the role of papilloma viruses which he shared with Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.

He was born in Gelsenkirchen. Zur Hausen died on 28 May 2023 in Heidelberg, Germany, at the age of 87.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.

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