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Karl Landsteiner

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Karl Landsteiner

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Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate

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Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian-Hungarian and American physiologist, immunologist, physician, and hematologist. He worked in chemistry and is known for his notable work on blood type. His career included positions at the University of Vienna, the University of Geneva, and The Rockefeller University. He was educated at the University of Vienna and the University of Geneva.

Landsteiner received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. He spoke German and English.

Born in 1868, Landsteiner died in New York City in 1943 from a myocardial infarction. His manner of death was natural causes. He was Catholic. His works include Untersuchungen über Syphilis an Affen, Über die Ätiologie der Polymyositis, Ueber Agglutinationserscheinungen normalen menschlichen Blutes, Beobachtungen über Hämagglutination, and Zur Technik der Spirochaetenuntersuchung.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1868
Died
1943
Works
11

Top works

  • Untersuchungen über Syphilis an Affen
  • Ueber Unterschiede des fötalen und mütterlichen Blutserums und über eine agglutinations- und fällungs-hemmende Wirkung des Normalserums
  • Über die Ätiologie der Polymyositis
  • Ueber Agglutinationserscheinungen normalen menschlichen Blutes
  • Beobachtungen über Hämagglutination

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1930

    “for his discovery of human blood groups”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Karl
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Baden
Place of death
New York City
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
University of Geneva
Employer
The Rockefeller University
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
Catholicism
Notable work
blood type
Field of work
chemistry
Image
Karl Landsteiner nobel.jpg
Work location
New York City
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Karl Landsteiner
member of
American Philosophical Society
date of birth
1868-06-14
date of death
1943-06-26
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
cause of death
myocardial infarction
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
Karl Landsteiner
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interested in
pathology
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Encyclopedic overview

Karl Landsteiner ForMemRS ( German: [kaʁl ˈlantˌʃtaɪnɐ]; 14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of 55 for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller Institute.

He had distinguished the main blood groups in 1901, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood. In 1937, with Alexander S. Wiener, he identified the Rhesus factor, thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient's life. With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909. He received the Aronson Prize in 1926. In 1930, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was posthumously awarded the Lasker Award in 1946, and has been described as the father of transfusion medicine.

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