THIS year’s Nobel prize for medicine might reopen old wounds over who discovered the virus that causes AIDS.
Robert Gallo, long credited as a co-discoverer of HIV in 1984, when he was at the National Institutes of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ in Bethesda, Maryland, was notably absent from Monday’s announcement. Instead, French researchers Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi received the award for discovering the virus at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Frances Gotch, who studies HIV at Imperial College London, says that despite a long-running dispute between Gallo and Montagnier over who discovered the virus, the pair seemed to have put…
