Jean Dausset 

Jean Dausset

Born 19 October 1916 (1916-10-19) (age 92)
Toulouse, France
Nationality France
Fields Immunology
Known for major histocompatibility complex, CEPH
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1980)

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (b. October 19, 1916, Toulouse, France) is a French immunologist. He 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.

With his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset was able in 1984 to create the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH), which soon after became Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH.

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