January 23rd Rare Autographs, Sports, Books and Photography
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Karl Landsteiner , Austrian biologist and physician (1868-1943) who is recognized as the father of transfusion medicine. Noted for distinguishing and developing the modern system of classification of blood groups, and identifying the Rhesus factor in 1937, which enabled physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient's life. He co-discovered the polio virus in 1909, and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930.
Album page Dated 1937
Karl Landsteiner "father of transfusion medicine"
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