BIOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Dausset has received more than 106,868 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Dausset is the 102nd most popular biologist (down from 84th in 2019), the 1,022nd most popular biography from France (down from 930th in 2019) and the 17th 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 102 out of 1,097. Before him are Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Günter Blobel, Jules A. Hoffmann, Lynn Margulis, Oliver Smithies, and John Franklin Enders. After him are Nettie Stevens, Thomas Huckle Weller, Louis Agassiz, Edward Tatum, Jan Swammerdam, and Julian Huxley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jean Dausset ranks 40. Before him are Paul Keres, Sune Bergström, Christian B. Anfinsen, Peter Weiss, Bernard Lewis, and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. After him are Marcel Cerdan, Peter Finch, P. W. Botha, Masaki Kobayashi, Virginia Satir, and Emil Gilels. Among people deceased in 2009, Jean Dausset ranks 27. Before him are Milorad Pavić, Ted Kennedy, Vivian Maier, Vitaly Ginzburg, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Bobby Robson. After him are Maurice Druon, Jack Kemp, Robert F. Furchgott, Günther Rall, João Bernardo Vieira, and Jennifer Jones.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 1,022 out of 6,770. Before him are Agnes of Poitou (1025), Tetricus I (250), Raymond of Poitiers (1115), Louis Malle (1932), Princess Clémentine of Orléans (1817), and Lili Boulanger (1893). After him are René Cassin (1887), Maurice Druon (1918), Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (1778), Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (1772), Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), and Samy Naceri (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 17. Before him are François Jacob (1920), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772). After him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), and Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756).

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