Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
Today on Google we remember Karl Landsteiner, born in Baden on June 14, 1868. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1930 for discovering human blood groups A, B, and O in 1900, and group AB in 1902. Following this discovery, which came into use in 1907, blood transfusions were widely practiced during World War I, saving countless lives.
But here I want to remember him for his remarkable contribution to the fight against polio. He moved from Vienna (which lacked monkeys) to Paris at the Pasteur Institute (where monkeys sigh... were available) to conduct his experiments. He demonstrated that the cause of poliomyelitis could be studied by injecting monkeys with material prepared by grinding the spinal cord of children who had died from this disease...