HIV was first identified in 1983 by French scientists Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They isolated the virus from a patient with symptoms of AIDS. In 1984 American researcher Robert Gallo definitively proved the virus’s role in causing AIDS. Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Harald zur Hausen.
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