# António Egas Moniz

> He won the Nobel Prize for inventing the lobotomy—a procedure that would later become a byword for medical barbarism. The same hands that pioneered cerebral angiography also carved into the frontal lobes of psychiatric patients, and the world gave him its highest scientific honor for it.

*Portuguese politian and neurosurgeon (1874-1955)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Portugal
- **Born:** 1874-11-29
- **Died:** 1955-12-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

António Egas Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist who built a dual career in medicine and politics, holding legislative and diplomatic posts in the Portuguese government while ascending to professor of neurology in Lisbon in 1911. He developed cerebral angiography, a breakthrough imaging technique, then turned his attention to psychosurgery and created leucotomy—the procedure that became known as lobotomy—as a treatment for mental illness. In 1949, he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize, sharing it with Walter Rudolf Hess for his work on leucotomy. He retired from his academic position in 1944 after decades of writing medical articles and teaching, leaving behind a legacy that would be fiercely reconsidered as the lobotomy fell from grace.

## Fame
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- **Country rank:** #243

## Topics
#Doctors, #Politician, #Politics, #Medicine, #Literature, #Portugal, #Europe, #19th Century

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