Jean Dausset was born on October 19, 1916 in Toulouse, a city in the south of France, and at the age of 11, settled in Paris. His interest in hematology and what would soon become immunoge-netics started shortly after he graduated as a medical doctor in Paris. One of his first professional experiences was in a "transfusion unit" during World War II, in North Africa. Shortly after his return to liberated France, Dausset made his seminal observation by detecting the presence of "leuco-agglutinins" in the serum of a patient with chronic agranulocytosis who received multiple transfusions (Dausset and Nenna, 1952)
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