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“A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.”

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Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner, born on June 14, 1868 in Austria, passed away on June 26, 1943 in the United States. He was an Austrian-American physician and immunologist, renowned for his discovery of the ABO blood group system. Landsteiner's research had a profound impact on the development of blood transfusion medicine and immunology. more

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