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Robert Bárány (Hungarian: Bárány Róbert, pronounced [ˈbaːraːɲ ˈroːbɛrt]; 22 April 1876 – 8 April 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. [1] He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus .
vestibular system. Robert Bárány (born April 22, 1876, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]—died April 8, 1936, Uppsala, Swed.) was an Austrian otologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1914 for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular (balancing) apparatus of the inner ear. Robert Bárány, c. 1930.
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Biographical. Robert Bárány was born on April 22, 1876, in Vienna. His father was the manager of a farm estate and his mother, Maria Hock, was the daughter of a well-known Prague scientist, and it was her intellectucal influence that was most pronounced in the family. Robert was the eldest of six children. When he was quite young he ...
Robert Bárány came from a Hungarian family but was born in Vienna, where his father worked as a bank official and farm estate manager. Bárány both studied to become a doctor and conducted the research that led to his Nobel Prize in Vienna. When the First World War broke out in 1914, he enlisted as a surgeon in the Austrian army.
During World War I, prisoner-of-war camps overseen by the Russian Army held hundreds of thousands of captured servicemen under the harshest of conditions. Interred in one of these camps in central Asia was an Austrian physician, Robert Bárány. It was during his time as a prisoner of war that he learned of his selection for the 1914 Nobel ...
- Adam Bracha, Siang Yong Tan
- 10.11622/smedj.2015002
- 2015
- Singapore Med J. 2015 Jan; 56(1): 5-6.
Nov 3, 2014 · In 1914, the Austro-Hungarian otologist Robert Bárány (1876–1936) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine “for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus” ( Figure 1 ). He championed the development and application of new tools for studying the balance system of the inner ear and the oculomotor system [1].
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He was an otologist and had observed from a purely clinical standpoint the frequent coincidence of vertigo, “Schwerhörigkeit” and tinnitus in cases with normal middle ear. The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea. Its destruction or impairment caused the tinnitus and the “Schwerhörigkeit”.
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