Jacques Oudin

Jacques Henri Léon Marie Joseph Oudin (born May 15, 1908 in Dreux , † October 15, 1985 in Paris ) was a French immunologist . He is one of the pioneers in immunology at the molecular level and immunochemistry and the founder of a French school of immunology.

Life

Oudin received his doctorate in medicine in 1936 and another doctorate in 1949. From 1937 he was at the Pasteur Institute , where he became head of the laboratories for analytical chemical immunology in 1944, head of immunochemistry in 1959 and professor in 1970.

In 1946 he described an immunological method for the identification of antigens by diffusion in gel solutions with associated antibodies ( immunodiffusion test ). Antigen and antibodies diffuse in the gel and precipitate at their place of reaction. The method was refined by Örjan Ouchterlony in Sweden in 1953 and represents a fundamental experimental procedure in immunology. In addition, two other important discoveries in the genetics of the immune system are ascribed to him, the allotype of immunoglobulins (1956) and the idiotype of antibodies (1963) .

In 1972 he received the gold medal of the CNRS , in 1961 the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstädter Prize , in 1973 the Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer , in 1973 the Avery Landsteiner Prize and in 1968 the Gairdner Foundation International Award . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1974), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1976), the Académie des Sciences (since 1979) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

A street in Dreux is named after him.

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French biography

Individual evidence

↑ Oudin Méthode d'analyse immunochimique par précipitation spécifique en milieu gélifié , Compte Rendue Acad Sci., Volume 222, 1946, pp. 115-116

personal data
SURNAME	Oudin, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oudin, Jacques Henri Léon Marie Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dreux
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 1985
Place of death	Paris

[1] Oudin Méthode d'analyse immunochimique par précipitation spécifique en milieu gélifié , Compte Rendue Acad Sci., Volume 222, 1946, pp. 115-116