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Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930

Physician – Anatomic Pathologist, Father of Immunology. ABO Blood Groups, Rh Typing. Paroxysmal Haemoglobinuria. Polio. Spirochaetes. Chemistry into service of serology. Meticulous observation, description, understanding in many fields.

Rigorously demanding of himself. Energetic. By nature somewhat pessimistic, preferred to live away from people.
Characteristic of him – died pipette in hand.

Biography
Books
History of Discovery
Honoring Karl Landsteiner
Patents: Landsteiner has not patented his discoveries
Videos

Honoring Karl Landsteiner

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Landsteiner bronze bust at Warm Springs. Author: Henry Lytton Cobbold, Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Author: Robert Prummel at Dutch Wikipedia. Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Karl Landsteiner – obverse of a 1,000-schilling bank note, Austria, 1997. Author: Österreichische Nationalbank. Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Karl Landsteiner working in his lab in Vienna – reverse of a 1,000-schilling bank note, Austria, 1997.

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Memorial plaque, Karl Landsteiner, Hindenburgdamm 30, Berlin-Lichterfelde, Germany. Author: OTFW, Berlin. Source: Wikimedia Commons.