3 share Nobel prize for work on AIDS and cancer
October 6th, 2008 in Medicine & Health / Research
In this Sept. 26, 2007 file photo Luc Montagnier, one of the doctors who helped first isolate the HIV virus, poses with a golden crown of laurels awarded to him in Sofia, Bulgaria . Germany's Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier have shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine. Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi were honored for discovering HIV, the AIDS virus (AP Photo)
(AP) -- Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases.
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