Karl Landsteiner's birthday_The father of transfusion medicine
Today's Google
doodle is about Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner, (June
14, 1868 – June 26, 1943), was an Austrian and American biologist and
physician. He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups
in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups
from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and having identified,
with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937, 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.
In 1930 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine.
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