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Harald zur Hausen

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008

Interview

Interview, December 2008

Interview with the 2008 Nobel Laureates in Medicine Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, 6 December 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.

The Laureates discuss the differing timelines behind the breakthroughs in cervical cancer and HIV, how their discoveries were applied to creating treatments (10:37), the difficulties involved in making a vaccine for HIV (19:30), and why viruses might play a more important role in cancer (29:30).
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Interview, October 2008

Telephone interview with Harald zur Hausen immediately following the announcement of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 6 October 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.

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