Google is celebrating Karl Landsteiner’s 148th birthday with an animated doodle.
Karl Landsteiner, ForMemRS, was an Austrian and American biologist and physician.
He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and having identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937.With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909.
Karl Landsteiner was born in Vienna on June 14, 1868. Landsteiner studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1891.
From 1908 to 1920 Landsteiner was prosector at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna and in 1911 he was sworn in as an associate professor of pathological anatomy. During that time he discovered – in co-operation with Erwin Popper – the infectious character of Poliomyelitis and isolated the polio virus.
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