Jean Dausset
Jean Dausset
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980
Nobel co-recipients: Baruj Benacerraf, George D. Snell
Photo: Dutch Nat’l Archives. Painting Tim Tompkins – PaintHistory.com
<b.Name: Jean Dausset
Birth: 19 October 1916, Toulouse, France
Death: 6 June 2009, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Institution: Université de Paris, Laboratoire Immuno-Hématologie, Paris, France
Award: “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions.”
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Award: “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions.”
Medal, Cash & Philantrophy
Jean Dausset used the Nobel Prize money to establish Centre d’Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH; Human Polymorphism Study Center). Now it is named Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH. It is located in Paris, France.