In the glow of the prize, Nature revisits the brawl

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What does HIV have in common with calculus? The dogfight over who discovered it.

This is a copy of Nature magazine's 1987 editorial on the dispute between the (U.S.) National Cancer Institute's Dr. Robert Gallo and the (French) Pasteur Institute's Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier--a conflict only slightly dramatized in the nonfiction novel and film "And the Band Played On."

In 1983, Montagnier brought samples of viral isolate to the NCI so that Gallo's lab could examine them

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