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French HIV discoverer Luc Montagnier has died at 89

FILE - French scientist Luc Montagnier speaks during an interview on June 5, 2006 in Paris. French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering HIV and has more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has died on Tuesday Feb.10, 2022 at age 89, according to the city hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File) FILE - French scientist and 2008 Nobel medicine prize Luc Montagnier waves to demonstrators after delivering his speech during a protest against the COVID-19 vaccination Green Pass, in Milan, Italy Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering HIV and has more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has died on Tuesday Feb.10, 2022 at age 89, according to the city hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File) FILE - France's Luc Montagnier, director of a Paris laboratory that identified the virus that causes AIDS, talks to the press at the first day of an International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, July 7, 2002. French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering HIV and has more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has died on Tuesday Feb.10, 2022 at age 89, according to the city hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine. (AP Photo/Cesar Rangel, File)