Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
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Karl Landsteiner was a Jewish-Austrian biologist and physician who won the Nobel Prize for his scientific achievements. His work made important contributions to medical science, though the specific nature of his discoveries would require additional context to describe.
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- 1868
- Died
- 1943
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- 11
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- 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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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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1868 births1943 deathsAustrian emigrants to the United StatesAustrian expatriates in the NetherlandsAustrian immunologistsAustrian JewsAustrian Nobel laureatesAustrian pathologistsAustrian Roman CatholicsConverts to Roman Catholicism from JudaismExpatriates from Austria-Hungary in GermanyForeign members of the Royal Society