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Mar 23, 1939 Paris, Île de France, France 85 years old
French virologist
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About Jean Claude Chermann
- Jean-Claude Chermann is a French virologist who managed the research team which, by 1983, under the administrative supervision of Luc Montagnier, had discovered the virus associated with AIDS.
- Whereas second author of this initial publication and obviously involved as team manager in this discovery, he had been omitted from the Nobel Prize attributed to its colleagues.
- The virus was named lymphadenopathy-associated virus, or LAV.
- A year later, a team led by Robert Gallo of the United States confirmed the discovery of the virus, but renamed it human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III).
