Luc Montagnier

Luc Antoine Montagnier (18 August 1932 – 8 February 2022) was a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,news.bbc.co.uk, Nobel prize for viral discoveries for the discovery made by his team, and particularly Françoise Baré-Sinoussi of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He worked as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Controversy
He has been discredited by his Nobel peers because of the many fake and dangerous theories he tries to spread, such as "DNA teleportation" or Papaya Cure for AIDS or Parkinson disease. In 2009 he published two controversial research studies which, if true, "would be the most significant experiments performed in the past 90 years, demanding re-evaluation of the whole conceptual framework of modern chemistry".Andy Coghlan, "Scorn over claim of teleported DNA", New Scientist 12 January 2011, issue 2795
Homeopaths claim his research as support for homeopathy, but Montagnier himself says it cannot be extended to homeopathy.Cure Or Con? CBC Marketplace Many scientists have greeted it with scorn and harsh criticism.PZ Myers 2011. Pharyngula "It almost makes me disbelieve that HIV causes AIDS!" ,Editorial, "Why we have to teleport disbelief", New Scientist 12 January 2011, issue 2795

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier also supported the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 was created and escaped from a laboratory.

 Honors 
He received the Legion of Honour. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988.

Personal life
Montagnier died on 8 February 2022 at a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France at the age of 89.

Related pages
 List of biologists

References

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