Robert Bárány · Science & Medicine
Otologist awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular (balance) apparatus of the inner ear.
1876, Vienna, Austria — 1936, Uppsala, Sweden
Austria · Sweden (Uppsala)
Robert Bárány is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Otologist awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular (balance) apparatus of the inner ear.
Origins and early life
Robert Bárány was born in Vienna on 22 April 1876, the eldest of six children of Maria Hock, a scientist's daughter, and Ignác Bárány, a Hungarian Jew who worked as a bank official and estate manager. He took his medical degree at the University of Vienna in 1900.
Work and career
The discovery that made his name came out of ordinary clinical work: syringing fluid into a patient's ear canal to relieve dizziness, he noticed that the patient grew giddy and the eyes jerked involuntarily when the fluid was too cold, and that warm fluid produced the opposite movement. He had found that the balance organ of the inner ear could be tested by temperature alone — the caloric test, which turned the vestibular apparatus from a mystery into something a doctor could examine at the bedside, and which is still used.
Recognition
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1914 for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus. He was a prisoner of war of the Russians when the award was announced. He died on 8 April 1936.
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Otologist awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular (balance) apparatus of the inner ear.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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