Europe 1 with AFP 5:52 p.m., February 10, 2022, modified at 5:55 p.m., February 10, 2022

The town hall of Neuilly, which claims to have his death certificate, announced to AFP the death of the researcher at the age of 89, confirming information from the online media FranceSoir.

Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the AIDS virus, died Tuesday at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), AFP learned Thursday from the mayor of the city Jean -Christophe Fromantin, confirming press information.

The town hall of Neuilly, which claims to have his death certificate, announced to AFP the death of the researcher at the age of 89, confirming information from the online media FranceSoir.

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