António Egas Moniz
Portuguese politian and neurosurgeon (1874-1955)
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Portuguese neurologist who mapped the brain's blood vessels and pioneered lobotomy, a procedure that earned him the 1949 Nobel Prize—and decades of posthumous controversy about what that prize actually meant.
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António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, known as simply Egas Moniz, was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, having developed the surgical procedure leucotomy—better known today as lobotomy—for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949.
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