Jean Dausset

1916 - 2009

Country of citizenship: France

Languages spoken, written or signed: French

Educated at: Paris Medical Faculty, Lycée Michelet, Vanves

Occupation: physician, physiologist, immunologist, chemist, professor, professeur des universités, hematologist, researcher

Award received: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Wolf Prize in Medicine, Ramon Llull Award, Canada Gairdner International Award, Prix de l'Etat, Honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza, Robert Koch Prize, honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, honorary doctorate of the University of the Balearic Islands, CNRS silver medal, Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award

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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 Majorca, Spain, at the age of 92. Source: Wikipedia (en)