Luc Montagnier

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
Nobel co-recipients: Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Prize: "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus."

Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy

Luc Montagnier shared one half of the Nobel Prize money with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi. He planned to use the award money of 2.5 million Swedish crowns [$600,000] on his HIV research.