Luc Montagnier

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Luc Montagnier (2008)

Luc Antoine Montagnier (born August 18, 1932 in Chabris ) is a French virologist and Nobel Prize winner . Together with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi , he is considered the discoverer of the AIDS- causing HIV virus .

Life

Montagnier studied medicine in Poitiers and Paris .

From 1955 he worked as an assistant at the University of Paris , where he received his doctorate in 1960. From 1965 to 1971 he worked as head of the Radium Institute at the National Scientific Research Center in Paris. In 1972 Luc Montagnier became head of the virology department at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, which he led as professor from 1985. From 1991 to 1997 he was head of the AIDS and retrovirus department at the same institute . In 1997 he moved to Queens College, New York University, where he was director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Biology until 2001. He is an honorary doctor of several universities and has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1988 , of the European Molecular Biology Organization since 1990 and of the Académie des sciences since 1996 . In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Montagnier is married and has two daughters and a son.

Act

First-time HI virus isolation

He was head of the working group that isolated the pathogen that causes the immunodeficiency disease AIDS, known today as the HI virus, for the first time in 1983 .

The virus was initially called "lymphadenotropic virus" or "lymphadenopathy-associated virus" (LAV). There was a protracted legal battle over the patent for the first HIV antibody test , as Montagnier applied for the patent six months before Robert Gallo , but Robert Gallo was sooner approved by the US patent office. This dispute was finally settled at the highest level by US President Ronald Reagan and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and ended in 1987 with a settlement . Years later, Robert Gallo admitted that Montagnier was the first to discover the HI virus.

In 2003, Montagnier worked as an expert on the HIV process in Libya .

Controversial positions

In an interview for the film House of Numbers (2009), Montagnier claimed that a healthy diet, antioxidants and hygiene are more important than appropriate drugs in the fight against AIDS. According to his thesis, a healthy immune system, strengthened by a healthy diet or lifestyle, should be able to completely eliminate the HI virus without medication. This statement contradicts the previous view that AIDS cannot be cured with the means available today.

In July 2010, Montagnier presented a new method for detecting viral infections at a conference. He claimed that solutions containing the DNA of disease-causing bacteria and viruses such as HIV were able to send out low-frequency radio waves that caused the surrounding water molecules to organize themselves into nanostructures. These water molecules could in turn emit radio waves. Water retains these properties even if virus or bacterial DNA is no longer detectable. Doctors could use the radio waves to identify diseases. Montagnier's claims are highly controversial because of their alleged proximity to the water memory theory of contemporary homeopathy .

Montagnier is of the opinion that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by humans in a laboratory , which is indicated by the unnatural presence of HIV elements and malaria germs in the genome of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 . An "industrial" accident had occurred in the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory , which has specialized in coronaviruses since the 2000s .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Luc Montagnier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bärbel Häcker: Montagnier, Luc. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1006.
  2. ^ Directory of members: Luc Montagnier. Academia Europaea, accessed on September 22, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
  3. ↑ Luc Montagnier et al .: A new human T-lymphotropic retrovirus: characterization and possible role in lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndroms. In: Report from Cold Spring Harbor Meeting 1983, Sep. 15. pp. 363-376.
  4. ↑ Chicago Tribune : Tribune reported on controversy that surrounded HIV discovery ( Memento from December 26, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ) from October 6, 2008.
  5. ^ Phyllida Brown: The strains of the HIV war. In: New Scientist . May 25, 1991, Retrieved July 9, 2014 (article preview).
  6. ↑ Tina Goebel: The AIDS Myth: Does a Good Immune System Help Against Infection? In: Profile . July 3, 2010, accessed July 9, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Interview with Luc Montagnier
  8. ↑ Nobel laureate gives homeopathy a boost. In: The Australian . July 5, 2010, accessed July 9, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Surendra Singh: Coronavirus man-made in Wuhan lab: Nobel laureate . In: Times of India , April 19, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2020. 
personal data
SURNAME Montagnier, Luc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montagnier, Luc Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Chabris