Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930
Name: Karl Landsteiner
Birth: 14 June 1868, Vienna, Austrian Empire (now Austria)
Death: 26 June 1943, New York, NY, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: “for his discovery of human blood groups”
Field: Hematology
Prize share: 1/1
Rigorously demanding of himself. Energetic. By nature somewhat pessimistic, preferred to live away from people.
Characteristic of him – died pipette in hand.
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Honoring Karl Landsteiner
Patents: Landsteiner has not patented his discoveries
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