Born in Vienna, Barany became a medical doctor in 1900. In 1903, he joined the Viennese Politzer's ear clinic and began his research on the vestibular organ. Barany published his first report in 1906, and in 1909 he was appointed docent at the University of Vienna. In 1915 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus. The announcement that he was Nobel Laureate came while he was still a Russian prisoner of war in Merv (Turkestan). Through the intercession of Gunnar Holmgren of Uppsala, …