The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949
Awarded on: 1949-10-27
"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"
Affiliations:
- University of Lisbon – Lisbon, Portugal
- Neurological Institute – Lisbon, Portugal
António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
Born: 1874-11-29 in Avanca, Portugal
Gender: male
Field: Portuguese neurologist (1874–1955)
Biography
António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, known as 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.