Läkarinstrument · Welcome to the Nobel Prize Laureate Collection

ID-nummer

2007.001.000

Titel

Läkarinstrument

Publik beskrivning

These instruments were used by Robert Bárány in his work as a physician and researcher. His most important scientific contribution concern the construction and function of the inner ear.
During the First World War, Bárány was a volunteer surgeon in the Austrian army on the Eastern Front. He was a prisoner of war in Russia in1915, when it was announced that he had won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Thanks to negotiations headed by Sweden’s Prince Carl on behalf of the Red Cross, he was released in 1916. After receiving the Nobel Prize, Bárány remained in Sweden. From 1917 he worked at Uppsala University.

The instruments were donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by the Bárány family in 2007.

Pristagare

Robert Bárány