biography
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| (1900–87)
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| biography:
| Immuno-haematologist, born in Kletsk, Russia. He went to Brooklyn with his parents in 1908, and was a research assistant at the Rockefeller Institute (1925–32) where he and Nobel laureate Karl Landsteiner co-discovered the M, N, and P human blood groups (1928). Levine taught and performed bacteriological research at the University of Wisconsin (1932–5), was a bacteriologist and serologist at Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, NJ (1935–44), and actively endorsed laws ordering blood tests for paternity at both institutions. In 1940, with Landsteiner and Alexander Weiner, he discovered the Rh factor in human blood and was the first to publish results of subsequent research on fetal-maternal iso-immunization due to this factor. He became director (1944–66), emeritus director (1966–75), then consultant (1975–85) at the Ortho Research Foundation, Raritan, NJ, whose immuno-haematology division was renamed the Philip Levine laboratories shortly after his arrival. |
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