Abstract

The Russian Army supervised prisoner-of-war camps of World War I housed hundreds of thousands of captured soldiers in appalling conditions. Robert Barany, an Austrian surgeon, was buried in one of these camps in central Asia. He discovered that he had been chosen for the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine when he was a prisoner of war. He went on to work for over 20 years at Uppsala University in Sweden after accepting an offer there in 1916. Shortly before turning sixty in 1936, he passed away. The paper emphasizes his vision and contributions to the discipline, highlighting his remarkable discoveries and vision in the vestibular system