In 1930, Karl Landsteiner won the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Date of Birth: 14 June 1868.
Died: 26 June 1943.
Nationality: Austrian.
Country: Austria.
Education: University of Vienna.
Known as: Research of blood group systems, the discovery of Rh factor, and the discovery of poliovirus.
Profession: Biologist, Physician, and Immunologist.
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1930), National Academy of Sciences, USA (1932), Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1938), Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1946), ForMemRS (1941).
Fields: Medicine, virology.
