How old was Barre-Sinoussi when she won the Nobel Prize?
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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 when she was 61 years old. She shared the prize with Luc Montagnier, who she worked with at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. They were awarded the prize for their work on the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.
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