
1 Karl Landsteiner graduated with a degree in
medicine from the University of Vienna.
2 He held a position at the University of Vienna
as a professor of Pathological Anatomy.
3 In 1930, Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of blood groups.
4 This discovery was inspired by Landsteiner's
observation that human blood clumps together when it comes into contact with animal blood.
5 Landsteiner's blood types were named based
on antigens present on the surface of the blood cell and antibodies present in the blood.