Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize laureates
Antonio Egas Moniz
1949 Physiology or Medicine
* 1874 in Avanca/Estarreja
+ 1955 in Lisbon
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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 — known better today as lobotomy —
for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949 (shared with Walter Rudolf Hess).
2021 J. Giesen