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Definition of Karl Landsteiner

1. Noun. United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943).

Medical Definition of Karl Landsteiner

1. This native of Vienna in 1900 discovered iso-agglutinins in human blood and then showed that blood had specific groups, which was responsible for the safety of giving blood transfusions. With Alexander Weiner, he discovered the Rh factor in human blood. Along with Poppen he proved that poliomyelitis could be transmitted to subhuman primates by intraspinal injection. From 1892 to 1943 Landsteiner published 346 scientific articles. In 1930, he became a winner of the Nobel Prize. Lived: 1868-1943. (15 Nov 1997)

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Literary usage of Karl Landsteiner

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1. Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and (1913)
"Sanitary Measures against Poliomyelitis, by Privat-Docent Dr. Karl Landsteiner, kk Universitat, Vienna, Austria, and Dr. Simon Flexner, ..."

2. Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and by Joseph S. Fruton (1990)
"After receiving his Dr.med. degree in Vienna, Karl Landsteiner spent the following three years (1891-1894) in several organic-chemical laboratories. ..."

3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"... von Karl Landsteiner, inf. Propst in Nikolsburg. Ren : Heinrich Kirsch, 1892. Tradizioni popolari Albanesi. T. Luciani. Capodistria : Tipografia Cobol ..."

4. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"... former rival Hans Buchner as well as the Viennese hygienist Max von Gruber and such emerging critics of Ehrlich as Karl Landsteiner and Jules Bordet, ..."

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