!!!Bárány, Robert

b. Vienna, April 22, 1876, 
d. Uppsala (Sweden), April 8, 1936, physiologist, otologist, Nobel 
Prize Laureate. 1909 lecturer in otological medicine in Vienna. Won 
the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1914 for his work on the vestibular 
(balancing) system in the inner ear which paved the way for labyrinth 
surgery; his discovery led to the virtual elimination of 
meningitis-related deaths induced by suppuration of the inner ear. 
1917 university professor in Uppsala; 1936 the Uppsala University 
founded a B. Prize.

!Works
Physiologie und Pathologie des Bogengangapparates beim 
Menschen, 1907; Die Seekrankheit, 1911; Die Radikaloperation des Ohres 
ohne Gehoergangplastik bei chronischer Mittelohreiterung, 1923.



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