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  Red Gold . Innovators & Pioneers . Karl Landsteiner | PBS
Landsteiner identified the agents responsible for immune reactions, examined the interaction of antigens and antibodies, and studied allergic reactions in experimental animals.
Landsteiner graduated from medical school at the age of 23 and immediately began advanced studies in the field of organic chemistry, working in the research laboratory of his mentor, Ernst Ludwig.
Landsteiner took a portion of the boy's spinal column and injected it into the spinal canal of several species of experimental animals, including rabbits, guinea-pigs, mice and monkeys.
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 Karl Landsteiner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Landsteiner (June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician.
He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and in 1930 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
He was born in Vienna, Austria to Leopold Landsteiner, a journalist and newspaper editor who was also a doctor of law.
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 Karl Landsteiner: Blood on His Mind
Landsteiner saw the future of medicine lay in greater knowledge of the human body through scientific research.
Landsteiner had discovered that red blood cells typically had one of two distinct molecules on their surface.
Landsteiner and Wiener learned that if persons with Rh-negative blood receive more than one transfusion of Rh-positive blood, their blood develops anti-factors, similar to those found in the blood of a person who has had a disease such as mumps or chickenpox.
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 BookRags: Karl Landsteiner Biography
During this time, Landsteiner was at the height of his career and produced 52 papers on serological immunity, 33 on bacteriology and six on pathological anatomy.
Landsteiner accepted a position as chief dissector in a small Catholic hospital in The Hague, Netherlands where he performed routine laboratory tests on urine and blood from 1919 to 1922.
Landsteiner died in 1943, at the age of 75.
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 Karl Landsteiner (www.whonamedit.com)
Karl Landsteiner was one of the first scientists to study the physical processes of immunity and is reckoned as the founder of serology.
During 1896-1897 Landsteiner was an assistant to Max von Gruber (1853-1927) in the newly established Institute of Hygiene at the University of Vienna.
In 1902 Landsteiner presented a lecture, together with Max Richter (1867-1932) of the Vienna University Institute of Forensic Medicine, in which the two reported a new method of typing dried blood stains to help solve crimes in which blood stains are left at the scene.
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 BookRags: Karl Landsteiner Biography
Landsteiner was educated at the University of Vienna, where he received his medical degree in 1891.
Landsteiner determined that human beings could be separated into blood groups according to the capacity of their red cells to clot in the presence of different serums.
Landsteiner left the University of Vienna in 1919 and accepted a position in Holland due to the civil disorders in Vienna caused by World War I, as well as the lack of funding and facilities for research.
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 Red Gold . Innovators & Pioneers . Karl Landsteiner | PBS
The Landsteiner family spent their summers in an isolated house on Nantucket that reminded Landsteiner of his Scheveningen home in the Netherlands.
Landsteiner developed a profound dislike for his growing celebrity as the world's foremost authority on the mechanisms of immunity.
Landsteiner was said to worry incessantly and was overcome toward the end of his life with fear that the Nazis would take over the civilized world.
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 Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner was born on June 14, 1868, in Vienna, Austria.
Landsteiner became an assistant under Max von Gruber in the Hygiene Institute in Vienna in 1896.
In 1901-1903, Landsteiner discovered that during a blood transfusion from human to human, different foreign bloods tends to clump and cause shock or jaundice.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Landsteiner,
Landsteiner, Karl LANDSTEINER, KARL [Landsteiner, Karl], 1868-1943, American medical research worker, b.
Rh factor RH FACTOR [Rh factor] protein substance present in the red blood cells of most people, capable of inducing intense antigenic reactions.
The Rh, or rhesus, factor was discovered in 1940 by K. Landsteiner and A. Wiener, when they observed that an injection of blood from a rhesus monkey into
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 Landsteiner-Wiener - Blood Groups - SCARF Exchange
Landsteiner and Wiener used blood from a monkey (Macacus rhesus) to immunize rabbits and guinea pigs in order to define new antibody specificities.
Then Race and Sanger found two women whose antibodies could be absorbed by Rh negative red cells and which appeared to be similar to the "D-like" antibody from animals.
Following further studies by Levine the "D-like" name was changed to LW in honor of Landsteiner and Wiener.
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 Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions
Karl Landsteiner discovered that blood clumping was an immunological reaction which occurs when the receiver of a blood transfusion has antibodies against the donor blood cells.
Karl Landsteiner's work made it possible to determine blood types and thus paved the way for blood transfusions to be carried out safely.
Nobel Laureate Karl Landsteiner was involved in the discovery of both the AB0 and Rh blood groups.
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 Landsteiner, Karl - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
LANDSTEINER, KARL [Landsteiner, Karl], 1868-1943, American medical research worker, b.
In 1922 he came to the United States to join the staff of the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller Univ.).
In 1940 he identified, in collaboration with A. Wiener, the Rh factor.
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 Landsteiner Karl - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Landsteiner Karl - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Landsteiner, Karl (1868-1943), Austrian-born American pathologist and Nobel laureate.
Born in Vienna, he received his medical degree at the...
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 The Individualist: Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (June 14, 1868 - June 26, 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician.
Landsteiner was aware of Stillmark's work with lectins, and wrote in a paper 1914 entitled 'Pflanzliche Hammagglutinine." that he had observed that these extracts did not always agglutinate the blood of different species equally.
In 1908 he had reported that small amounts of lentil lectin would agglutinate rabbit erythrocytes, even high concentrations of the lectin had no effect on pigeon red cells.
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 Amazon.com: landsteiner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The specificity of serological reactions,: By Karl Landsteiner by Karl Landsteiner (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1947)
Karl Landsteiner: June 14, 1868-June 26, 1943 (Biographical memoirs / National Academy of Sciences) (Biographical memoirs / National Academy of Sciences) by Michael Heidelberger (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1969)
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 by Paul Speiser (Unknown Binding - 1975)
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 Karl Landsteiner Winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Karl Landsteiner Winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Karl Landsteiner - Biography (submitted by Davis Brown)
Karl Landsteiner Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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