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Karl Landsteiner 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.

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science · Austrian immunologist (1868–1943) · physiologist · immunologist · physician · hematologist · pathologist · researcher · university teacher · chemist · also Karl Landsteiner, Landsteiner

Born 14 June 1868 · Died 26 June 1943 · Q84405

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it will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors.
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Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1946).
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2026· 1 entry

Aug 17, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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“it will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors.”

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2024· 1 entry

Oct 14, 2024Documented record69% confidence

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ots: Karl Landsteiner Gesellschaft: Ein Vorreiter der heimischen Forschung feiert 20. Geburtstag

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2019· 1 entry

Jul 10, 2019Documented record69% confidence

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meinbezirk: Karl Landsteiner

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2016· 7 entries

Jun 14, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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SiliconRepublic: Karl Landsteiner Google Doodle celebrates discoverer of blood groups

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Jun 14, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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The Financial Express: Google Doodle honours discoverer of blood group Karl Landsteiner

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Jun 13, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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welt.de: 148. Geburtstag: Karl Landsteiner revolutionierte die Bluttransfusion

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Jun 13, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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TheHealthSite: Karl Landsteiner, discoverer of blood groups, honoured in a Google doodle on his 148th birthday

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Jun 13, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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NDTV: Google Observes Karl Landsteiner 148th Birthday With A Doodle

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Jun 13, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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CNET: Karl Landsteiner, discoverer of blood groups, honoured in Google Doodle

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Jun 13, 2016Documented record69% confidence

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Time: New Google Doodle Honors Karl Landsteiner, Discoverer of Blood Groups

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2013· 1 entry

Nov 13, 2013Documented record69% confidence

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Bayerischer Rundfunk: 14. November 1901 Karl Landsteiner entdeckt die Blutgruppen

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1946· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1946Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1946).

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Was posthumously awarded the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

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1946Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And has been described as the father of transfusion medicine

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1943· 1 entry

Jun 26, 1943Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1943-06-26.

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1941· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1941Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1941).

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1937· 1 entry

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Landsteiner unsuccessfully initiated legal action against an American publisher who had included him in the book Who's Who in American Jewry

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1932· 1 entry

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Elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1935, and awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1937

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1930· 4 entries

Dec 10, 1930Documented record85% confidence

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of human blood groups.

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Jun 15, 1930Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1930).

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1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of these achievements

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1927· 1 entry

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Discovered new blood groups: M, N and P, refining the work he had begun 20 years before

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1926· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1926Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Aronson Prize (1926).

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1923· 1 entry

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At the age of 55 for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller Institute

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1916· 1 entry

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Married Leopoldine Helene Wlasto, a Greek Orthodox woman who converted to her husband's Catholic faith

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1911· 1 entry

1911Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was sworn in as an associate professor of pathological anatomy

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1901· 1 entry

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Having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood

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1900· 1 entry

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Landsteiner found out that the blood of two people under contact agglutinates, and in 1901 he found that this effect was due to contact of blood with blood serum

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1890· 1 entry

1890Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And was baptised into the Catholic Church

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1868· 1 entry

Jun 14, 1868Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1868-06-14.

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