Dausset, J.

Correspondence with Dausset, contributor to Festschrift (see PP/GRF/ A.16). Also includes the call to scientists from the Mouvement Universel de Responsabilité Scientifique (MURS), and Fraser's two interventions during the International Conference on Biology and the Future of Man in 1974 ('Contributions to round table on Genetic Variability of Man; Effect of Behaviour', in C. Galpérine, Proceedings of the International Conference Biology and the Future of Man, Universities of Paris, 1976) with an English translation.

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Dausset won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for work on the genes of the major histocompatibility complex. He was President of the Mouvement Universel de Responsabilité Scientifique (MURS) and as he wrote of Fraser in his contribution to Fraser's Festschrift,

'For a long time, you have been an honorary member of MURS since you contributed to the International Conference Biology and the Future of Man in 1974 (when the MURS was founded) and you helped the Rector of the Sorbonne, Robert Mallet, for several months of 1975 in the office of the MURS in the Boulevard St Germain. You are therefore a "mursian" of greater seniority than I am (Robert Mallet was the first president from 1974 to 1983, then I from 1983 to 2002, then Gérard Mégie for two years until his death and now I, who will be 90 years old in October, again).'