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Detailed explanation-1: -The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi for the discovery of HIV. They shared the Prize with Harald zur Hausen, who discovered that human papilloma viruses can cause cervical cancer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Former Northern Irish first minister David Trimble, a pro-British leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his role as a key architect in ending three decade of bloodshed in the region, has died aged 77, his family said on July 25, 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -Montagnier, a virologist, led the team that in 1983 identified the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes AIDS, leading him to share the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine with colleague Francoise Barré-Sinoussi. He was born in 1932 in the village of Chabris in central France.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901 to the German physiologist Emil Adolf von Behring. Behring’s discovery of serum therapy in the development of the diphtheria and tetanus vaccines put “in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths".