Austrian biologist and physician (1868-1943) who is recognized as the father of transfusion medicine. Noted for distinguishing and developing the modern system of classification of blood groups, and identifying the Rhesus factor in 1937, which enabled physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient's life. He co-discovered the polio virus in 1909, and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930. TLS in German, signed “K. Landsteiner,” one page, 5.25 x 8.5, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research letterhead, November 23, 1933. Letter to doctors at the university hospital in Bern, Switzerland, asking them if they could send him a copy of their article on (translated) "isolating the group-specific agglutinogens of the red blood cells." Tipped into a hardcover copy of the book "Die Spezifizitat der serologischen Reaktionen" [The Specificity of the Serological Reactions]. In fine condition, with possibly trimmed edges.
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