1868–1943 Austrian–American pathologist and immunologist who discovered the human blood groups.
Keywords: ABO blood groups; hapten; azoprotein; conjugated antigen; immunochemical specificity
Landsteiner, Karl
JM Cruse, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
RE Lewis, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002499
| Further Reading | |
| Landsteiner K (1901) Ueber Agglutinationserscheinungen normalen menschlichen Blutes. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 14: 1132–1134. | |
| book Landsteiner K (1945) The Specificity of Serological Reactions, revised edn. Cambridge, NA: Harvard University Press. (Reprinted Dover Publications, 1982.) | |
| book Corner GW (1964) A History of the Rockefeller Institute 1901–1953. Origins and Growth. New York: Rockefeller Institute Press. | |
| Farr AD (1979) Blood group serology – the first four decades (1900–1939). Medical History 23: 215–226. | |
| Heidelberger M (1969) Landsteiner June 14, 1868–June 26, 1943. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs 40: 177–210. | |
| Mazumdar PMH (1975) The purpose of immunity: Landsteiner's interpretation of the human isoantibodies. Journal of the History of Biology 8: 115–133. | |
| book Speiser P and Smekal FG (1975) Karl Landsteiner, Rickett R (transl.). Vienna: Verlag Brüder Hollinek. | |
