Jean Dausset

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Jean Dausset
Born	(1916-10-19)19 October 1916 Toulouse, France
Died	6 June 2009(2009-06-06) (aged 92) Palma, Majorca, Spain
Education	Lycée Michelet
Alma mater	University of Paris
Known for	major histocompatibility complex, CEPH
Spouse	Rose Mayoral
Children	Two
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1980), Wolf Prize in Medicine (1978)
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	Free French Forces, North Africa; Boston Children's Hospital; Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)

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.