BIOLOGIST

Karl Landsteiner

1868 - 1943

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Karl Landsteiner (German: [kaʁl ˈlantˌʃtaɪnɐ]; 14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of 55 for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller Institute. He had distinguished the main blood groups in 1901, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood. In 1937, with Alexander S. Wiener, he identified the Rhesus factor, thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient's life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Landsteiner is the 12th most popular biologist (up from 13th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Austria (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Biologist.

Karl Landsteiner is most famous for discovering the ABO blood groups and the Rhesus factor.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Landsteiner ranks 12 out of 1,097. Before him are Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, and Rosalind Franklin. After him are Robert Edwards, Robert Brown, Georges Cuvier, George Beadle, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Macfarlane Burnet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Karl Landsteiner ranks 4. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia, Maxim Gorky, and Robert Falcon Scott. After him are Miklós Horthy, Fritz Haber, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, John Nance Garner, Abdulmejid II, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Andrews Millikan, and Constantine I of Greece. Among people deceased in 1943, Karl Landsteiner ranks 5. Before him are Nikola Tesla, David Hilbert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Pieter Zeeman. After him are George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Isoroku Yamamoto, Simone Weil, Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, and Boris III of Bulgaria.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Landsteiner ranks 45 out of 1,424. Before him are Herbert von Karajan (1908), Egon Schiele (1890), Konrad Lorenz (1903), Viktor Frankl (1905), Hedy Lamarr (1914), and Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856). After him are Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557), Otto of Greece (1815), Friedrich Hayek (1899), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Anton Webern (1883), and Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Karl Landsteiner ranks 2. Before him are Konrad Lorenz (1903). After him are Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Othenio Abel (1875), Joy Adamson (1910), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Otto Stapf (1857), and Franz Steindachner (1834).

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