sir julian sorell huxley proposed every person has specific blood group.
sir julian sorell huxley proposed every person has specific blood group.
who proposed every person has specific blood group?
sir julian sorell huxley
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this was the first evidence that blood variation exists in humans – it was believed that all humans have similar blood. the next year, in 1901, he made a definitive observation that blood serum of an individual would agglutinate with only those of certain individuals. based on this he classified human bloods into three groups, namely group a, group b, and group c. he defined that group a blood agglutinates with group b, but never with its own type. similarly, group b blood agglutinates with group a. group c blood is different in that it agglutinates with both a and b. this was the discovery of blood groups for which landsteiner was awarded the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1930. in his paper, he called the specific blood group interactions as isoagglutination, and also introduced the concept of agglutinins (antibodies), which is the actual basis of antigen-antibody reaction in abo system. he asserted:
abo blood group system