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Birth of Karl Landsteiner

14 June 1868

Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate. Karl Landsteiner was born on 14 June 1868 in what is now Austria. Karl Landsteiner is remembered as a physiologist, immunologist and physician, a citizen of Austria–Hungary and the United States. Notable works include “blood type”.

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