France's Nobel winner for co-discovery of HIV virus dies aged 89

FILE - French scientist Luc Montagnier speaks during an interview on June 5, 2006 in Paris. He died on Tuesday Feb.10, 2022 at age 89. AP - JACQUES BRINON

French scientist Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel prize for medicine for his co-discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, has died aged 89, the mayor of the Paris suburb where he was hospitalised said Thursday.

Montagnier died on Tuesday in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine northwest of the centre of Paris, its mayor Jean-Christophe Fromantin told AFP. Fromantin said he was in possession of the death certificate.