BARANY, ROBERT (18 7 6-1936), Austrian physician, was born in Vienna, April 22, 1876, and became a lecturer on diseases of the ear at the university there in 1909. In when he was a military doctor at Przmysl, he was taken prisoner by the Russians, but after some time he was released as an invalid. In 1917 he was invited to Uppsala University as assistant professor for ear and throat diseases and thus gained the title of professor. In 1914 he won the Nobel Prize for medicine, for his investiga tions in physiology and the methods of diagnosis, of great sig nificance in the development of internal surgery. Barany also carried out important investigations in the physiology and pathol ogy of the cerebellum and worked out a method for the objective diagnosis of one-sided deafness. His works include Physiologie and Pathologie des Bogengang—Apparats beim Menschen (1907).