Selected Milestones in Virology Discovery Year Scientists Nobel prize Polio vaccines 1955 Jonas Salk 1960 Albert Sabin Reverse transcriptase of 1971 Howard Temin and David Baltimore 1975 retroviruses Virus vectors and gentic 1970s Paul Berg 1980 engineering Cellular oncogene in a 1976 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus 1989 retrovirus RNA Splicing in adenovirus 1977 Phillip sharp and richard roberts 1993 Discovery of Human 1983 Barre-Sinoussi F& montagnier L 08 Immunodeficiency Virus HBV vaccine(recombinant) 1986 HPV vaccine(recombinant) 2006Selected Milestones in Virology Discovery scove r y Year Scientists ie n tists Nobel prize Polio vaccines 1955 1960 Jonas Salk Albert Sabin Albert Sabin Reverse transcriptase of retroviruses 1971 Howard Temin and David Baltimore 1975 Virus vectors and gentic engineering 1970s Paul Berg 1980 Cellular onco gene in a 1976 Michael Bisho p and Harold Varmus 1989 retrovirus RNA splicing in adenovirus 1977 Phillip Sharp and Richard Roberts 1993 Di f H scovery o f Human 1983 B é Si i F & M i L 2008 Immunodeficiency Virus 1983 Barr é -Sinoussi F. & Montagnier L. 2008 HBV vaccine (recombinant) 1986 HPV vaccine (recombinant) 2006