BIOLOGIST

Karl Landsteiner

1868 - 1943

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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 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Karl Landsteiner is the 13th most popular biologist (down from 11th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 41st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Biologist.

Karl Landsteiner is most famous for discovering the ABO blood groups and the Rhesus factor.

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Over the past year Karl Landsteiner has had the most page views in the with 92,246 views, followed by German (26,260), and Spanish (20,133). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (94.77%), Sundanese (86.17%), and Uzbek (58.29%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Landsteiner ranks 13 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Cuvier, Rosalind Franklin, and James Watson. After him are Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Crick, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Thomas Henry Huxley, Élie Metchnikoff, and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Karl Landsteiner ranks 6. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia, Maxim Gorky, Fritz Haber, Miklós Horthy, and Abdulmejid II. After him are Constantine I of Greece, Robert Andrews Millikan, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Emanuel Lasker, and Gichin Funakoshi. Among people deceased in 1943, Karl Landsteiner ranks 7. Before him are Nikola Tesla, Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Hilbert, Isoroku Yamamoto, Pieter Zeeman, and Simone Weil. After him are Camille Claudel, Henrik Pontoppidan, Boris III of Bulgaria, Theodor Eicke, Sophie Scholl, and Henri La Fontaine.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Landsteiner ranks 52 out of 1,424. Before him are Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Christian Doppler (1803), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Hedy Lamarr (1914), Otto von Habsburg (1912), and Otto Skorzeny (1908). After him are Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856), Anton Webern (1883), and Oskar Kokoschka (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Karl Landsteiner ranks 2. Before him are Konrad Lorenz (1903). After him are Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Othenio Abel (1875), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Erich von Tschermak (1871), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Joy Adamson (1910), Franz Unger (1800), and Josef August Schultes (1773).

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