Egas Moniz

British

/ ˈeɡas ˈmonɪz /

noun

Antonio Caetanio de Abreu Freire. 1874–1955, Portuguese neurologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1949) with Walter Hess for their development of prefrontal leucotomy

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At some point, he opened a book by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz and got religion.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2021

It was against this background that Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy - or leucotomy as he called it - in 1935.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2021

The inventor of frontal lobotomy, Egas Moniz, was awarded a Nobel Prize for inventing that surgery, which today we understand as a mutilation.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2020

In 1949, Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for "one of the most important discoveries ever made in psychiatric therapy."

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2016

Egas Moniz died in 1144, and at least the eastern part of the church may have existed before then.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

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