[land-stahy-ner; Ger. lahnt-shtahy-nuh
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| Karl [kahrl; Ger. kahrl] , 1868–1943, Austrian pathologist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1930. |
| Land·stei·ner (lānd'stī'nər, länt'shtī'-) Austrian-born American pathologist. He won a 1930 Nobel Prize for the discovery of human blood groups. |
| Landsteiner (lānd'stī'nər) Pronunciation Key
Austrian-born American pathologist who discovered the human blood groups A, B, and O in 1901. In 1902, his colleagues discovered a fourth group, AB, and in 1927 Landsteiner discovered two more groups, M and N. For this work Landsteiner received the 1930 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. In 1940 he discovered the Rh factor. |