Biographical data on Karl Landsteiner, 1923-1952 1923-1952

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Biographical data on Karl Landsteiner, 1923-1952 1923-1952

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Correspondence of Dr. George M. Mackenzie with friends and associates of Karl Landsteiner; memoranda of conversations; notes and recollections of Landsteiner by Thomas M. Rivers, 1944-1952, and by Max Neuberger; Landsteiner's departmental reports at Rockefeller Institute, 1923-1943; correspondence on publications. There is much material on immunology, the study of blood, the Nobel award, 1930, antisemitism, and the Vienna medical schools.

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Rivers, Thomas M. (Thomas Milton), 1888-1962

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Thomas Milton Rivers conducted medical research in bacteriology. He discovered the bacillus Parainfluenzae and cultivated vaccine virus for human use. Most of his research was conducted at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute, where he was director from 1937-1955. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1941-1963]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440206 After a desultory education in Jonesboro, Georgia, Thomas M. Rivers discove...

Neuburger, Max, 1868-1955

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Mackenzie, George M., collector.

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Karl Landsteiner was a medical researcher and Nobel laureate. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1935. From the guide to the Biographical data on Karl Landsteiner, 1923-1952, 1923-1952, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Landsteiner, Karl, 1868-1943

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Austrian American immunologist and pathologist credited with discovering the major blood groups and the ABO system of blood typing. Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1930. From the description of Reprints of scientific writings, 1918-1979. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 57585118 Born in Vienna, Karl Landsteiner obtained his medical training at the University of Vienna and embarked on a career of pathology and immunology. He joined the R...

Rockefeller Institute.

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In 1892, the physician and medical administrator Simon Flexner began research on cerebrospinal meningitis, a meningococcal disease with an untreated mortality rate between 70 and 90%. Experimenting on monkeys, Flexner developed a promising serum treatment for the disease by 1903, which he used extensively during the epidemic outbreaks of meningitis in New York City in 1904-1905 and 1907. For several years, Flexner kept his serum under his close supervision, with the result that the Rockefeller I...