Karl Landsteiner polio, he was posthumously inducted into the Polio Hall of Fame at Warm Springs, Georgia, which was dedicated in January 1958. In 1900 Karl Landsteiner found out that the blood of two people under contact agglutinates, and in 1901 he found that this effect was due to contact of blood with blood serum. As a result, he succeeded in identifying the three blood groups A, B and O, which he labelled C, of human blood. Landsteiner also found out that blood transfusion between persons with the same blood group did not lead to the destruction of blood cells, whereas this
John Landsteiner John Landsteiner John Landsteiner (born May 19, 1990) is an American curler. He competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics and won gold as part of John Shuster's rink in the 2018 Winter Olympics. His hometown is Mapleton, Minnesota and he currently resides in Duluth, Minnesota. At the 2013 United States Olympic Curling Trials, Landsteiner was part of the first-placed team. At the qualification event for the 2014 Winter Olympics Landsteiner's team won the second qualifier 8–5 over the Czech Republic to take the final 2014 Olympic qualification spot. Landsteiner currently works as a corrosion engineer for Lake Superior Consulting. He