Karl Landsteiner
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Karl Landsteiner Net Worth

. Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian biologist and physician born on June 14, 1868 in Vienna, United States. He is renowned for his work in the fields of hematology and immunology, which revolutionized the process of blood transfusion and led to the isolation of deadly viruses and the development of vaccines against them. Despite financial hardship, he never gave up his research and was mentored by some of the leading scientific minds of his time. His singular personality earned him many nicknames, including the father of immunology, the father of hematology, and the melancholy genius. His prodigious intellect and tireless work ethic changed the face of medical treatment forever, and hundreds owe their lives to his research.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Physician
Birth Day June 14, 1868
Birth Place Vienna, United States
Age 151 YEARS OLD
Died On June 26, 1943(1943-06-26) (aged 75)\nNew York City, New York, U.S.
Birth Sign Cancer
Citizenship Austria, Netherlands, US
Alma mater University of Vienna
Known for Development of blood group system, discovery of Rh factor, discovery of poliovirus
Awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1930) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1946 posthumously) ForMemRS (1941)
Fields Medicine, virology
Institutions University of Vienna Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

💰 Net worth

Karl Landsteiner, a renowned physician in the United States, is estimated to have a net worth ranging between $100K to $1M by the year 2024. Landsteiner's notable contributions to the field of medicine, particularly in the discovery of blood groups and the development of the ABO blood typing system, have garnered him acclaim and recognition. Through his groundbreaking work, Landsteiner has not only revolutionized the understanding of blood transfusions but has also saved countless lives. As a highly regarded physician, his wealth is a testament to both his professional impact and the recognition he has received throughout his career.

Biography/Timeline

1818

Landsteiner's Father, Leopold (1818–1875), a renowned Viennese Journalist who was editor-in-chief of Die Presse, died at age 56, when Karl was only 6. This led to a close relationship between him and his mother Fanny (born Hess; 1837–1908). After graduating with the Matura exam from a Vienna secondary school, he took up the study of Medicine at the University of Vienna and wrote his doctoral thesis in 1891. While still a student he published an essay on the influence of diets on the composition of blood.

1890

Landsteiner converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1890. In 1916 he married Leopoldine Helene Wlasto, a Greek Orthodox who converted to her husband's Roman Catholic faith. In 1937 Landsteiner took legal action (unsuccessfully) against an American publisher who had included him in the book Who's Who in American Jewry, stating that "it will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors."

1891

From 1891 to 1893, Landsteiner studied chemistry in Würzburg under Hermann Emil Fischer, in München, Eugen Bamberger and in Zürich under Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch. He had a number of publications from that period, some of them in co-operation with his professors.

1897

After returning to Vienna he became an assistant to Max von Gruber at the Hygienic Institute. In his studies he concentrated on the mechanism of immunity and the nature of antibodies. From November 1897 to 1908 Landsteiner was an assistant at the pathological-anatomical institute of the University of Vienna under Anton Weichselbaum, where he published 75 papers, dealing with issues in serology, bacteriology, virology and pathological anatomy. In addition he did some 3,600 autopsies in those ten years. Weichselbaum was Landsteiner's tutor for his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1903. From 1908 to 1920 Landsteiner was prosector at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna and in 1911 he was sworn in as an associate professor of pathological anatomy. During that time he discovered – in co-operation with Erwin Popper – the infectious character of Poliomyelitis and isolated the polio virus. In recognition of this groundbreaking discovery, which proved to be the basis for the fight against polio, he was posthumously inducted into the Polio Hall of Fame at Warm Springs, Georgia, which was dedicated in January 1958.

1900

In 1900 Karl Landsteiner found out that the blood of two people under contact agglutinates, and in 1901 he found that this effect was due to contact of blood with blood serum. As a result, he succeeded in identifying the three blood groups A, B and O, which he labelled C, of human blood. Landsteiner also found out that blood transfusion between persons with the same blood group did not lead to the destruction of blood cells, whereas this occurred between persons of different blood groups. Based on his findings, the first successful blood transfusion was performed by Reuben Ottenberg at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1907.

1923

After World War I, Vienna and the new republic of Austria as a whole was in a desolate economic state, a situation in which Landsteiner did not see any possibilities to carry on with his research work. He decided to move to The Netherlands and accepted a post as prosector in the small Catholic St. Joannes de Deo hospital (now MCH Westeinde) in The Hague and, in order to improve his financial situation also took a job in a small factory, producing old tuberculin (tuberculinum prestinum). He also published a number of papers, five of them being published in Dutch by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Yet working conditions proved to be not much better than in post-war Vienna. So Landsteiner accepted the invitation that reached him from New York, initiated by Simon Flexner, who was familiar with Landsteiner's work, to work for the Rockefeller Institute. He arrived there with his family in the spring of 1923. Throughout the 1920s Landsteiner worked on the problems of immunity and allergy. In 1927 he discovered new blood groups: M, N and P, refining the work he had begun 20 years before. Soon after Landsteiner and his collaborator, Philip Levine, published the work and in 1927, the types began to be used in paternity suits.

1930

In today's blood transfusions only concentrates of red blood cells without serum are transmitted, which is of great importance in surgical practice. In 1930 Landsteiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of these achievements. For his pioneering work, he is recognized as the Father of transfusion Medicine.

1946

Landsteiner was posthumously awarded the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 1946 and elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1941.

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