1930-1939

1930 Landsteiner. Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discovery of human blood groups.

1932 Form establishes 1^st blood bank in Leningrad hospital & studies clinical use of cadaver & placental blood.

1937 Cook County, USA hospital establishes blood bank.

1937 Landsteiner & Wiener elucidate Rhesus Blood Group System.

1937 Patek & Taylor identify anti-haemophilic Factor VIII.

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