Tribute to Egas Moniz a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography.
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Father of the Lobotomy | Dark Matters
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1949 Professor António Egas Moniz Examines Head X-Ray
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Antonio Egas Moniz
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Casa Museu Egas Moniz / Egas Moniz House Museum
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.