Reuben Ottenberg

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Reuben Ottenberg (* 1882 in New York City , † 1959 ) was an American doctor and hematologist . He published his historically decisive work shortly before the First World War.

During the blood tolerance tests he introduced in 1907, he found that the antibodies present in a patient against donor blood are dangerous, but not the other way around. (According to today's nomenclature, this refers to the so-called AB0 system ). This led to the use of people with blood group 0 (in words “zero”) as universal donors .

In 1954 he was the first to receive the Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award from the American Society of Blood Banks for his life's work, namely numerous pioneering works and contributions on all aspects of blood transfusion.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reuben Ottenberg online biography
  2. ↑ Ottenberg's blood tolerance tests (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  3. ↑ blood group
  4. ↑ Winner of the Karl Landsteiner Awards ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aabb.org
personal data
SURNAME Ottenberg, Reuben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hematologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 1959