Jean Dausset

French scientist; physician who shared the Nobel Prize with two others for their work on antigens, 1980. A blood physiologist, he received numerous other awards for his work. His research and study helped improve patients' chances of living with transplanted organs and helped further understanding of the human immune response particularly with regard to autoimmune diseases. In 1984 he established a laboratory which later became a non-profit foundation. He retired from its board in 2003.

He and his wife whom he married in 1963 had two children.

He died in Mallorca, Spain, on June 6, 2009 at age 92.