Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2265

KARL LANDSTEINER (1868-1943) Zur Kenntniss der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe. (In Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten. Vol. 27 (1900), pp. 357-362.) 23 cm.

A native of Vienna, Landsteiner studied at the University of Vienna where he received his medical degree in 1891, after which he studied chemistry with Hantzsch in Zurich, Emil Fischer in Würzburg, and E. Bamberger in Munich. In 1900, as reported in this paper, he discovered iso-agglutinins in the human blood and demonstrated the existence of three blood groups, thereby making safe blood transfusions possible. He left Europe in 1922 and joined the staff of the Rockefeller Institute where in 1940, with Alexander S. Wiener (b. 1907), he discovered the Rh factor in human blood. Landsteiner's scientific activity was prodigious and he published more than 300 scientific articles on chemistry, pathology, serology, and immunology. He was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 1930 for his discovery of human blood groups.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 889