Jean Dausset

Who is this?

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. Jean Dausset died on June 6, 2009, in Mallorca, Spain, at the age of 92.

Career

1. 1916
   Born
2. 1967
   Won Prix de l'Etat
3. 1977
   Won Canada Gairdner International Award
4. 1978
   Won Wolf Prize in Medicine
5. 1980
   Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
6. 1981
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
7. 2009
   Passed away
8. Member of French Academy of Sciences
9. Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
10. Won Ramon Llull Award

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Toulouse
• •Citizenship: France
• •Known as: physician, physiologist, immunologist, chemist