Karl Landsteiner

(1868–1943) Physiologist

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Karl Landsteiner was a physiologist, best known for The specificity of serological reactions.

Quick Facts About Karl Landsteiner

Born: June 14, 1868
Died: June 26, 1943
Profession: Physiologist
Notable works: The specificity of serological reactions

About Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian-American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of 55 for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller Institute.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Karl Landsteiner

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially…

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Advice

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I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy…

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Blood

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A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same…

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Animal

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“There is no sharp boundary line separating the reactions of the immune bodies from chemical processes between crystalloids, just as in nature…

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Arrhenius

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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for…

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Animal

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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the…

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Characteristics

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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species…

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Blood

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