The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
"for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
"for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"
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| Germany | France | France |
| German Cancer Research Centre Heidelberg, Germany |
Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit, Virology Department, Institut Pasteur Paris, France |
World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention Paris, France |
| b. 1936 | b. 1947 | b. 1932 |
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