Dr. Karl Landsteiner Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine, 1930.

Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943): originator of ABO blood classification.

243 I magine practising medicine without access to blood transfusions. It was Karl Landsteiner, a 1930 Nobel laureate, who classified human blood into groups based on the presence of naturally occurring agglutinating antibodies, and whose findings eventually established safe transfusion procedures. Prior to his discovery, patients in need of blood received transfusions from animals such as shee...

Is Karl Landsteiner the Einstein of the biomedical sciences?

If Albert Einstein is the acclaimed peerless genius among the physical scientists of this century, who can claim the equivalent title among the biomedical scientists? The research contributions of 24 Nobelists in medicine (contemporaries of Einstein) who received the Nobel prize between 1912 and 1966 were analyzed. When assessed on three criteria, (a) influence in multiple disciplines, (b) revo...

Karl Landsteiner, the discoverer of the blood groups and a pioneer in the field of immunology. Biography of a Nobel Prize winner of the Vienna Medical School

Karl Landsteiner and the first human marker locus.

JUST a century ago, the year of the rediscovery of Landsteiner outlined the background of this discovMendelism, Karl Landsteiner published a short note ery in his 1930 Nobel Lecture (Landsteiner 1931), and on what we would now call antibody action in human it has been dealt with in detail in the Obituary Notices blood serum, with a comment on the agglutination of of Fellows of the Royal Society...

Paediatric Virology as a new educational initiative: An interview with Nobelist Professor of Virology Harald zur Hausen

Born in Gelsenkirchen-Buer in Germany on March 11th, 1936, Professor Harald zur Hausen, Emeritus Professor of Virology at the University of Freiburg and 2008 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, believes that good knowledge of virological methods and diagnostic possibilities are an asset for all young paedi...