French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916)

Jean Dausset

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset 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.

Born

1916

October 19

Died

2009

Era

1910s

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1916 Born
2009 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-202 Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.[citation needed]
439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1386 The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1453 Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.

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The world in 1916

When Jean arrived

april 18 World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
april 24 Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
april 24 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
april 25 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

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Also born on October 19

Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bill Ponsford 1900– Australian cricketer and baseball player (died 1991) Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Grover Norquist 1956– American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform Jack Anderson 1922–2005 American journalist and author (born 1922) James Bevel 1936–2008 American minister and activist (born 1936) James Howard Kunstler 1948– American author and critic John Woolman 1720–1772 American-English preacher, journalist, and activist (died 1772) LaWanda Page 1920–2002 American actress (died 2002)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1916

Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar 1916–1991 Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (born 1916) Bill Durnan 1916–1972 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1972) Billy Hitchcock 1916–2006 American baseball player, coach, manager (born 1916) C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962) 1916– Chick Hearn 1916–2002 American sportscaster (born 1916) Colin McCool 1916– Australian cricketer (died 1986) Deendayal Upadhyaya 1916– Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (died 1968) Dom Mintoff 1916–2012 Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1916) Don Tallon 1916–1984 Australian cricketer (died 1984)

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