Laureate

Karl Landsteiner

1868–1943 · Austria · Male

Awards

  1. 1930

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

    Biology

    for his discovery of human blood groups

  2. 1946

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

    Biology

    For the discovery of the RH factor as a cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn and of severe hemolysis arising from incompatible blood transfusions.