On the 6th of October last the names of the Nobel Prize for Medicine this year were made public: the French researchers Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the award for the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the AIDS virus (VIH) and the German researcher Harald zur Hausen, for the discovery of the Human Papiloma Virus (PVH), associated to the appearance of cancer of the neck of the uterus.
The prize will be awarded on the 10th of December, and the prize of one million Euros associated to it will be shared over the two discoveries, half a million for the French researchers and the rest for the German researcher.As a curiosity one should note that Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is the eighth woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine since it started being awarded in 1901.
