According to Science, a team led by the Paris-based Pasteur Institute virologist Luc Antoine
Montagnier discovered the HIV virus and published the findings in the journal in May 1983.
Montagnier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Luc
Montagnier states in his Preface to the book: "Historically, vaccines have protected many people.
The co-discovery of HIV as the causative agent of AIDS by the Institut Pasteur team led by
Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi (4) and the US National Institutes of Health team lead by Gallo (5) was merely the beginning of the process.
In 1983, HIV was first isolated by Francis Barre-Sinnousi and Luc
Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in Paris on suspicion that it could be the cause of AIDS.
Irigaray P, Newby JA, Clapp R, Hardell L, Howard V,
Montagnier L, et al.
Luc
Montagnier sent him samples of what would later be called HIV.
Evans, Oliver Smithies, Harald zur Hausen, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, Luc
Montagnier, Elizabeth H.
fermentans and other mycoplasmas can induce the replication of HIV in vitro, led Luc
Montagnier, discoverer of HIV, and Alain Blanchard, renowned mycoplasmologist, for the first time to the hypothesis that these microorganisms could have a role in the development of AIDS [14].