1868 - 1943
Karl Landsteiner (German: [kaʁl ˈlantˌʃtaɪnɐ]; 14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of fifty five for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller Institute. He had 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. In 1937, with Alexander S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Landsteiner has received more than 2,126,522 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Karl Landsteiner is the 11th most popular biologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Austria (down from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Biologist.
Karl Landsteiner is most famous for discovering the ABO blood groups and the Rhesus factor.
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Among biologists, Karl Landsteiner ranks 11 out of 841. Before him are Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Luc Montagnier, Ernst Haeckel, and James Watson. After him are Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Russel Wallace, Richard Dawkins, and Georges Cuvier.
1849 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 5
1632 - 1723
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 6
1744 - 1829
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 7
1932 - 2022
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 8
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 9
1928 - Present
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 10
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 11
1903 - 1989
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 12
1920 - 1958
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 13
1866 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 14
1823 - 1913
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 15
1941 - Present
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 16
1769 - 1832
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1868, Karl Landsteiner ranks 4. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia, Maxim Gorky, and Fritz Haber. After him are Miklós Horthy, Abdulmejid II, Constantine I of Greece, Robert Andrews Millikan, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Gichin Funakoshi, and Emanuel Lasker. Among people deceased in 1943, Karl Landsteiner ranks 4. Before him are Nikola Tesla, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and David Hilbert. After him are Isoroku Yamamoto, Pieter Zeeman, Camille Claudel, Simone Weil, Boris III of Bulgaria, Henrik Pontoppidan, Theodor Eicke, and Yakov Dzhugashvili.
1868 - 1918
HPI: 83.34
Rank: 1
1868 - 1936
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 2
1868 - 1934
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 3
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 4
1868 - 1957
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 5
1868 - 1944
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 6
1868 - 1923
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 7
1868 - 1953
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 8
1868 - 1924
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 9
1868 - 1914
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 10
1868 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 11
1868 - 1941
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 12
1856 - 1943
HPI: 90.69
Rank: 1
1873 - 1943
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 2
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 3
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 4
1884 - 1943
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 5
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 6
1864 - 1943
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 7
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1892 - 1943
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 11
1907 - 1943
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Austria, Karl Landsteiner ranks 41 out of 1,237. Before him are Friedrich Hayek (1899), Anton Bruckner (1824), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), Viktor Frankl (1905), Maximilian I of Mexico (1832), and Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557). After him are Konrad Lorenz (1903), Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Lise Meitner (1878), and Otto von Habsburg (1912).
1899 - 1992
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 35
1824 - 1896
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 36
1874 - 1951
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 37
1905 - 1997
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 38
1832 - 1867
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 39
1557 - 1619
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 40
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 41
1903 - 1989
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 42
1608 - 1657
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 43
1678 - 1711
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 44
1415 - 1493
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 45
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 46
1912 - 2011
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 47
Among biologists born in Austria, Karl Landsteiner ranks 1. After him are Konrad Lorenz (1903), Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Joy Adamson (1910), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Othenio Abel (1875), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Franz Unger (1800), and Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727).
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 1
1903 - 1989
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 2
1886 - 1982
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 3
1901 - 1972
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 4
1910 - 1980
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 5
1871 - 1962
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 6
1875 - 1946
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 7
1874 - 1929
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 8
1802 - 1884
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 9
1735 - 1805
HPI: 50.17
Rank: 10
1800 - 1870
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 11
1727 - 1806
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 12