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The bioligist Karl Landsteiner was born in Baden bei Wien, Austria in 1868. He studied Chemistry at universities in Vienna, Würzburg, Munich, and Zurich, settling in Vienna, where he worked as a specialist on blood. Landsteiner distinguished the main blood groups, enabled blood transfusion, and also discovered the polio virus. In the 1920s, he moved first to the Netherlands and then to New York City. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930. Karl Landsteiner died in New York City in 1943.

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Karl Landsteiner, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3871.