<P> Karl Landsteiner , ForMemRS , ( 14 June 1868 -- 26 June 1943 ) was an Austrian biologist , physician , and immunologist . He 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 , and identified , with Alexander S. Wiener , the Rhesus factor , in 1937 , thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient 's life . With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper , he discovered the polio virus in 1909 . He received the Aronson Prize in 1926 . In 1930 , he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . He was posthumously awarded the Lasker Award in 1946 , and has been described as the father of transfusion medicine . </P>
<P> Karl Landsteiner , ForMemRS , ( 14 June 1868 -- 26 June 1943 ) was an Austrian biologist , physician , and immunologist . He 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 , and identified , with Alexander S. Wiener , the Rhesus factor , in 1937 , thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient 's life . With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper , he discovered the polio virus in 1909 . He received the Aronson Prize in 1926 . In 1930 , he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . He was posthumously awarded the Lasker Award in 1946 , and has been described as the father of transfusion medicine . </P>
who won the nobel prize for his research in blood groups
who won the nobel prize for his research in blood groups
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner