At the grave of Karl Landsteiner
On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Karl Landsteiner and out of personal interest, Dr. Eleonore Kemetmüller, Head of the Department of Nursing Science at KL, travelled to the USA.
On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Karl Landsteiner and out of personal interest, Dr. Eleonore Kemetmüller, Head of the Department of Nursing Science at KL University, travelled to the USA. After her journey to the remote island of Nantucket in the state of Massachusetts, she visited the grave of Karl Landsteiner.Karl Landsteiner lived with his wife Helene in a small house near the lighthouse Sankaty Light on Nantucket. Despite his Nobel Prize fame for discovering blood groups and the rhesus factor, he was known as a quiet man who preferred solitude.On Nantucket he could devote himself to his work in peace. Karl Landsteiner died of a heart attack on 24 June 1943. He was buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery next to his wife Helene, she died shortly after him in the same year.
