PICTURE! Here is a photo of Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Luc Montagnier (L to R) who won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 today. Harald zur Hausen won “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer” and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and Luc Montagnier “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”.

Sinoussi and Montagnier are from France, and their discovery was in 1983. Hausen is from Germany and his discovery concerns cervical cancer.

Hausen gets half of the price, and the two French researchers split the other half. The total prize is $1.4 million.