Luc Montagnier, a Nobel Prize-winning virologist who discovered HIV, and a critic of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, has died at the age of 89. The professor died at the American Hospital of Paris, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, “surrounded by his children,” reported French outlet FranceSoir on Feb. 9. The death was later confirmed by the area’s city hall. French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute in a written statement on Feb. 10 to Montagnier’s “major contribution” to the fight against AIDS and expressed condolences to his family. Montagnier is best known for having been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for having the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1983. Montagnier shares half of the award with colleague Francoise Barré-Sinoussi—the two led a working group at the Pasteur Institute in Paris that isolated the virus. The other half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to German cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen, for …