Professor Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize Winner of Medicine Has Died

Excerpt from the good Professor's biography

… and two years later came the declaration of war in 1939, while the whole family was harvesting grapes in the vineyards of my mother’s brother. I still remember the images in a newspaper of Warsaw ruins after a bombing by German planes.

And then, in 1940, came the “real” war: the German invasion, my parents and I leaving their house (close to a risky railway station), fleeing on the roads in a little car, and finally more exposed to German bombing during this “exodus” than if we had stayed home.

The first year of German occupation was terrible, in that we had no food reserves and most of the time we were starving. I was a rather puny boy and during the four years of the war did not gain a gram! The “ersatz” did not stimulate my appetite, when I was dreaming of chocolate and oranges!

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