One Day They're Scientists, the Next They're Nobel Laureates

Oct 06, 2008

French scientists Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were awarded the Nobel prize for medicine for their work discovering HIV as the cause of AIDS; meanwhile, German researcher Harald zur Hausen received the prize as well for demonstrating the link between human papilloma virus and cervical cancer.

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