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Karl Landsteiner

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Landsteiner, Karl 

Born June 14, 1868, in Baden (near Vienna); died June 26, 1943, in New York. Austrian immunologist.

Landsteiner graduated from the medical school of the University of Vienna in 1891. In 1922 he became a professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York.

Landsteiner was the founder of immunohematology. In 1900, together with J. Jansky, he discovered blood groups in man. He discovered the Rh factor with A. Wiener in 1940. With E. Popper, he proved the infectious nature of poliomyelitis. Land-steiner’s major works dealt with immunology and immu-nochemistry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930.

WORKS

Die Spezifizitä t der serologischen Reaktionen. Berlin, 1933. (Bibliography.)

REFERENCE

Speiser, P. Karl Landsteiner: Entdecker der Blutgruppen. Vienna [1961].
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