Laureate

Harald zur Hausen

1936–2023 · Germany · Male

Awards

  1. 2008

    Canada Gairdner International Award

    Biology

    For the discovery of the causative role of papilloma viruses in cancer of the cervix which led to the development of a successful HPV vaccine.

  2. 2008

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

    Biology

    for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer