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칼 랜드스타이너

Karl Landsteiner (June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943),

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칼 랜드스타이너는 오스트리아의 생물학자, 의사이다. 1901년 혈액의 응집에 따라 현대적 혈액형 분류법을 개발하였고, 1930년 노벨 의학상을 수상하였다. 1937년에는 Alexander S. Wiener와  Rh factor 를 발견하였다.

He was born in Vienna, Austria to Leopold Landsteiner, a journalist and newspaper editor who was also a doctor of law. His father died when Karl was six, and he was raised by his mother, Fanny Hess. He earned a medical degree at the University of Vienna in 1891, and was also wellgrounded in chemistry, having studied under Hermann Emil Fischer. In 1908 he became professor of pathology at the University of Vienna. In 1916 he married Helen Wlasto, and the couple had one son. Following World War I, he left for the Netherlands. In 1922 he joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, and he remained there for the remainder of his life (even following his retirement in 1939.) During this period he became an American citizen. Karl Landsteiner died of a heart attack while still working at his laboratory.

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