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Jean Dausset

1916 - 2009

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Dausset is the 61st most popular biologist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 597th most popular biography from France (up from 1,022nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Biologist.

Jean Dausset is most famous for his discovery of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean Dausset ranks 61 out of 1,097. Before him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, François Jacob, Roger Guillemin, Theodor Schwann, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. After him are Gregory Winter, Linda B. Buck, Daniel Bovet, Hugo de Vries, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and Hugo Theorell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jean Dausset ranks 19. Before him are Francis Crick, Roald Dahl, Ahmed Ben Bella, João Havelange, Olivia de Havilland, and Yehudi Menuhin. After him are Christian B. Anfinsen, Camilo José Cela, Claude Shannon, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Hans Eysenck, and Sune Bergström. Among people deceased in 2009, Jean Dausset ranks 14. Before him are Aage Bohr, Millvina Dean, Paul Samuelson, Maurice Jarre, Pina Bausch, and Corazon Aquino. After him are David Carradine, Sydney Chaplin, Abdurrahman Wahid, Mercedes Sosa, Farrah Fawcett, and Amin al-Hafiz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 597 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Edmond Becquerel (1820), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), and Éric Rohmer (1920). After him are Paul Claudel (1868), Gustave Caillebotte (1848), Blanche Monnier (1849), Hector Malot (1830), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), and René of Anjou (1409).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 12. Before him are Charles Richet (1850), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683). After him are Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), René Lesson (1794), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), and Pierre André Latreille (1762).

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