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Landsteiner, Dr. Karl (14.06.1868 - 26.06.1943) |
Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate. Karl Landsteiner studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1885 and was awarded his doctorate in 1891. He worked at various institutes, including those headed by Max Gruber (hygiene) and Anton Weichselbaum (pathology), at the Second Department of Internal Medicine and the First Department of Surgery in Vienna. He qualified as a professor of pathology in Vienna in 1903 and was appointed associate professor in 1911. In 1919, he accepted a post in the Netherlands, but was appointed to the Rockefeller Institute in New York as early as 1922, where he remained until his death in 1943. Whilst still an assistant at the Institute of Pathological Anatomy, Landsteiner discovered the ABO blood group system in 1900; later, he was the first to distinguish between different types of haemoglobin in the animal kingdom and described plant antibodies. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930. Landsteiner is regarded as the founder of immuno-haematology. His portrait appears on the 1,000-Schilling banknote issued in 1997. |
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https://viaf.org/viaf/32791609 |
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84405 |
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