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WORKERS in the field of medical research in Great’ Britain will wish to join in congratulating Dr. Karl Landsteiner, of the Rockefeller Institute in New York, on his recent election, and will regard the honour as being a well-merited tribute to the high level of the scientific work he has pursued with unremitting vigour during the past forty years. Three outstanding achievements will forever be associated with his name: the discovery of individual differences in human blood which account for the four well-defined groups; the demonstration, together with E. Popper, that the causal agent of acute poliomyelitis is transmissible to monkeys; and the series of notable contributions he has made towards elucidating the nature of the specificity of immuno-logical reactions.
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Dr. K. Landsteiner, For.Mem.R.S. Nature 147, 705 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147705a0
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