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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Dausset has received more than 100,051 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Jean Dausset is the 84th most popular biologist (up from 128th in 2019), the 932nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,065th in 2019) and the 14th 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, Jean Dausset ranks 84 out of 841. Before him are Julian Huxley, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Jan Swammerdam, and Gabriele Falloppio. After him are Carolus Clusius, Alfred Hershey, Elizabeth Blackburn, E. O. Wilson, André Michel Lwoff, and John Gurdon.
1887 - 1975
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 78
1748 - 1836
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 79
1522 - 1605
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 80
1772 - 1844
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 81
1637 - 1680
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 82
1523 - 1562
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 83
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 84
1525 - 1609
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 85
1908 - 1997
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 86
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 87
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 88
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 89
1933 - Present
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 90
Among people born in 1916, Jean Dausset ranks 29. Before him are Robert McNamara, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Dương Văn Minh, Natalia Ginzburg, Marcel Cerdan, and Peter Weiss. After him are Christian B. Anfinsen, Virginia Satir, Bernard Lewis, C. Wright Mills, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Among people deceased in 2009, Jean Dausset ranks 22. Before him are Les Paul, Robert McNamara, Vivian Maier, Karl Malden, Maurice Druon, and Ralf Dahrendorf. After him are Milorad Pavić, Jennifer Jones, Vitaly Ginzburg, Bobby Robson, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Juan Almeida Bosque.
1916 - 2009
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 23
1916 - 2003
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 24
1916 - 2001
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 25
1916 - 1991
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 26
1916 - 1949
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 27
1916 - 1982
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 28
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 29
1916 - 1995
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 30
1916 - 1988
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 31
1916 - 2018
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 32
1916 - 1962
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 33
1916 - 2007
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 34
1916 - 2000
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 35
1915 - 2009
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 16
1916 - 2009
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 17
1926 - 2009
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 18
1912 - 2009
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 19
1918 - 2009
HPI: 62.88
Rank: 20
1929 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 21
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 22
1929 - 2009
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 23
1919 - 2009
HPI: 62.40
Rank: 24
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 25
1933 - 2009
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 26
1940 - 2009
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 27
1927 - 2009
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 28
Among people born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 932 out of 6,011. Before him are Cardinal de Rohan (1734), Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540), Christine of France (1606), René Cassin (1887), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), and Juliette Récamier (1777). After him are Max Jacob (1876), Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (1162), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Thierry Henry (1977), Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), and Francis III, Duke of Brittany (1518).
1734 - 1803
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 926
1540 - 1609
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 927
1606 - 1663
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 928
1887 - 1976
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 929
1741 - 1828
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 930
1777 - 1849
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 931
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 932
1876 - 1944
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 933
1162 - 1214
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 934
1150 - 1210
HPI: 62.65
Rank: 935
1977 - Present
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 936
1626 - 1696
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 937
1518 - 1536
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 938
Among biologists born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 14. Before him are Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772). After him are Carolus Clusius (1525), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), and Armand David (1826).
1781 - 1838
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 8
1823 - 1915
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 9
1920 - 2013
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 10
1924 - Present
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 11
1748 - 1836
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 12
1772 - 1844
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 13
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 14
1525 - 1609
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 15
1902 - 1994
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 16
1656 - 1708
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 17
1803 - 1857
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 18
1737 - 1813
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 19
1826 - 1900
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 20