Françoise Barré-Sinoussi receiving her Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2008
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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi after receiving her Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2008. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2008
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The Royal Family and other guests of honour make their entry down the stairs into the Blue Hall. His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is escorting Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. Photo taken at the Nobel Banquet on 10 December 2008.

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From left to right: Princess Madeleine, Prince Carl Philip, Mrs Ethel-Michele de Villiers and Nobel Laureate Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Her Majesty Queen Silvia, Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier and Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Banquet.

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The 2008 Nobel Laureates assembled for a group photo during their visit to the Nobel Foundation, 12 December 2008. Back row, left to right: Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie, Nobel Laureate in Literature Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Economics Laureate Paul Krugman and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Harald zur Hausen. Front row, left to right: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Laureates in Physics Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (left) during the Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, 9 December 2008.

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The 2008 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine: Luc Montagnier (front row, third from left), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (front row, third from right) and Harald zur Hausen (front row, second from right), together with Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, President of Karolinska Institutet (front row, middle) and students dressed in Swedish national costumes at the Karolinska Institutet reception, Stockholm, 7 December 2008.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (left), Alice Dautry, Director of Pasteur Institute (middle) and Nadine Peyrolo, Head of Press Office Pasteur Institute (right), at the Karolinska Institutet reception, Stockholm, 7 December 2008.

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From left: Luc Montagnier, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen after delivering their Nobel Lectures at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, 7 December 2008.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, 7 December 2008.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi delivering her Nobel Lecture at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, 7 December 2008.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, like many Nobel Laureates before her, autographs a chair at Kafé Satir at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2008.

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Harald zur Hausen (centre), with fellow Medicine Laureates Luc Montagnier (left) and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (right) during their interview with Nobelprize.org in Stockholm, 6 December 2008.

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Harald zur Hausen and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi share a moment during their interview for Nobelprize.org in Stockholm, 6 December 2008. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2008
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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi at a press conference at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, 7 October 2008.

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Press conference at the UNESCO headquarters. From left to right: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008; Alice Dautry, Director-General of the Institut Pasteur; Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO; Luc Montagnier, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008.

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Press conference at the Pasteur Institute, 8 October 2008. From left: Patrick Netter, Director-General CNRS; André Sirota, Director-General Inserm; J.F. Delfraissy, Director-General ANRS; Alice Dautry, Director-General of the Institut Pasteur; et Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008.

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