Jean Dausset, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Dausset

French immunologist

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1916

Place of Birth: Toulouse, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 06-Jun-2009

Profession: physician, professor, chemist, physiologist, hematologist, immunologist, professeur des universités

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.