Philip Levine (physician)

Philip Levine (August 10, 1900 – October 18, 1987) was an immuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) and blood transfusion.

The family settled in Brooklyn where Levine graduated from Boys' High School.

About 1925, Levine became assistant to Karl Landsteiner at the Rockefeller Institute, New York City.

Back in the east in 1935, he worked as a bacteriologist and serologist at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, New Jersey where, in 1939, Levine and Rufus E. Stetson published their findings about a family who had a stillborn baby in 1937 who had died of hemolytic disease of the newborn.

Extract from the complete list of honors awarded to Levine in the Giblett publication on pp. 335f.