1. By: Evelyn Chavez and Jess Bautista
Karl Landsteiner
By: Evelyn Chavez and Jess Bautista

2. Brief Biography Born in Vienna on June 14, 1868.
Studied medicine at the University of Vienna and he graduated in 1891.
Became Professor of Pathological Anatomy in the University of Vienna in 1911.
Married Helen Wlasto and they had a son in 1916.
Became Emeritus Professor at the Rockefeller Institute in 1939.
Died on June 26, 1943; two days later after he had a heart attack.

3. Process of Immunity
One of the first scientists to study the physical processes of immunity. 
Focused much of his research around morbid anatomy and immunology.
Revealed new information regarding the immunology of syphilis and named the immunological factors haptens.
Laid the foundations for the cause and immunology of poliomyelitis.

4. Process of Immunity (continued)
Identified the agents responsible for immune reactions, examined the interaction of antigens and antibodies, and studied allergic reactions in experimental animals
Discovered that some simple chemicals produced an immune response.
Near the end of his career in 1940, he and [Alexander Wiener] discovered the Rh factor, which helped save the lives of many fetuses with mismatched Rh factors from their mothers.

5. Identifying Human Blood Types
In 1901, he discovered the blood groups.
In 1930, he was given the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this discovery.
Landsteiner suggested that when the blood of a single individual human is transfused with that of another human being it might be the cause of shock, jaundice, and haemoglobinuria that had followed a number of previous attempts at blood transfusions.
He classified the bloods of human beings into the A, B, AB, and O groups in 1909.
He also demonstrated that the destruction of new blood cells do not occur when there are transfusions between individuals of groups A or B. New blood cells are actually destructed only when an individual is transfused with the blood of an individual belonging to a different group.
Landsteiner suggested that the blood groups can be used to decide instances of doubtful paternity.
He discovered the Rh-factor in blood with the help of Wiener.

6. Bibliography
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