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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 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

Among biologists, Jean Dausset ranks 84 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jean Dausset ranks 29Before 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 22Before 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 932 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean Dausset ranks 14Before 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).