Nobel medicine prize shared
Germany’s Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering the Aids virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer.
Ms Barre-Sinoussi and Mr Montagnier were cited for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV; Mr zur Hausen was cited for finding human papilloma viruses that cause cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women.
