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Jean Dausset
French immunologist (1916-2009).
Life and work
The story behind the role.
French immunologist (1916-2009).
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.
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Achievements and distinctions
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French immunologist (1916-2009).
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Wolf Prize in Medicine
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Ramon Llull Award
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Canada Gairdner International Award
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Prix de l'Etat
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Honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb
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Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
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honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
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honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza
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Robert Koch Prize
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honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
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honorary doctorate of the University of the Balearic Islands
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CNRS silver medal
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Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award
Career and education
Employers and institutions
Collège de France · Paris Medical Faculty · French National Institute of Health and Medical Research
Memberships
French Academy of Sciences · National Academy of Sciences · Hungarian Academy of Sciences · American Academy of Arts and Sciences · Consistori del Gay Saber · Académie Nationale de Médecine · Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium · French Society of Immunology · Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium · Academia Europaea · Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia · Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Education
Paris Medical Faculty · Lycée Michelet, Vanves
Fields of work
immunology
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