title: On viruses, discovery, and recognition.
abstract: This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewards the discoverers of two viruses that cause major afflictions of humankind. Identifying human papilloma virus (HPV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) might now appear to have been simple, but the way forward was far from obvious at the time.
authors.affiliation: MRC/UCL Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London W1T4JF, UK. r.weiss@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Robin A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Weiss
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D006678:HIV; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D052162:Human papillomavirus 16; D052161:Human papillomavirus 18; D006801:Humans; D009613:Nobel Prize; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000821:virology; D014773:Virology / Q000266:history