Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian physician and immunologist who in 1900 and 1901, working in Vienna, discovered that mixing blood from different people could cause red blood cells to clump together, and identified the underlying A, B and O blood groups this depends on, the basis of the ABO blood group system that made safe blood transfusion possible. He later co-discovered the Rh blood factor in 1937 with Alexander Wiener. He received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Landsteiner discovered the ABO blood group system (1900-1901) before co-discovering the Rh factor; deepens the atlas's pre-existing Blood Groups entity.
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