Professor Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize in Medicine, has died

Professor Luc Montagnier, who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008, died Tuesday at the age of 89 at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, learns 

this Thursday from the town hall of the town , confirming information from

.

The former researcher at the CNRS and the Institut Pasteur had found himself on the sidelines of the scientific community in recent years, notably by asserting that vaccines could be linked to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, an assertion without support. scientist.

Since the Covid-19 crisis, he had multiplied the statements contradicted by scientific knowledge - several of which were the subject of articles in the Fake Off section of

-, making him a respected figure among opponents of anti-Covid vaccines and the health pass.

It is also the France-Soir site, which he had approached in recent years, which first reported the death of the professor on his Twitter account on Wednesday.

Only son, born in Berry in 1932, Luc Montagnier began by taking an interest in virology and entered the CNRS in 1960, where he discovered in 1963 "the mechanism of replication of RNA viruses", recalls the institution. .

The scientist then headed the Pasteur Institute's viral oncology unit from 1972 to 2000.

He had turned to oncology in particular because he had seen his grandfather suffer and die of cancer, he confided during the presentation of his Nobel Prize in Medicine.

He received this award in 2008 with virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi for work on the discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 1983.

Luc Montagnier was "the author or co-author of 350 scientific publications and more than 750 patents", according to the Pasteur Institute.

He had also taken part in the creation of several biotechnology companies in France and the United States.

His hazardous statements had estranged him from the scientific community in recent years.

In 2017, after comments by the professor on vaccination, a hundred members of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine had signed a petition accusing him of "disseminating, outside the scope of his competence, dangerous messages for health, in defiance of the ethics that should govern science and medicine".

On January 15, he took part in a demonstration in Milan against the “green pass”, the equivalent of the health pass in application with our transalpine neighbors.

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