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  1. Alexander Solomon Wiener (March 16, 1907 – November 6, 1976), was an American biologist and physician, specializing in the fields of forensic medicine, serology, and immunogenetics. His work led to the discovery of the Rh factor in 1937, along with Karl Landsteiner , and subsequently to the development of exchange transfusion methods that ...

  2. Wiener made a lasting contribution to forensic science in his discovery and advancement of the concept of the Rhesus factor. By using blood typing and blood grouping technologies, it has become increasingly possible to identify unique individuals, whether suspects or victims, from among the entire population of humans.

  3. Oct 1, 2008 · In the mid-1930s, Dr Wiener began actively using blood groups for parentage prediction. Initially, he tested blood for its ABO sand MN types and later added Rh typing. His main focus for parentage testing was to identify babies who may have been switched in the nursery and in disputed paternity or maternity cases.

    • Marion E. Reid
    • 2008
  4. He used his knowledge of blood groups in forensics, parentage studies, testing and monitoring mothers, and treating their babies for erythroblastosis fetalis (now known as hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn). Dr Wiener's method for exchange transfusion was highly efficient.

    • Marion E. Reid
    • 2008
  5. Jan 3, 2011 · The article quoted Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, who in 1940, along with his colleague Karl Landsteiner, first described the Rh factor in humans. “Dr. Wiener believes that some method may be...

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    Alexander Wiener (March 16, 1907 - November 6, 1976) Born in the United States Year of Discovery: 1937 Put the Positive or Negative into Blood Types, Lowering Infant Mortality Wiener, the son of Russian immigrants, was a skilled mathematician, president of his high school math club, and studied math at ollege.

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  8. ALEXANDER S. WIENER* THE Rh or rhesus blood factor has supplied the key to two medical mysteries, namely, the cause of hemolytic transfusion reactions in patients receiving blood of their own A-B-0 group, and the cause of an obscure blood disease of newborn infants known as erythroblastosis fetalis. In view of the importance of the Rh blood

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