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António Egas Moniz

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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.