PHYSIOLOGY/MEDICINE: António Egas Moniz 1949 - Lisbon, Portugal - Nobel Laureates on Waymarking.com

Born Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire within a rural aristocratic family, his uncle and godfather, the priest, Caetano de Abreu Sá Freire Pina Resende, insist that the surname (last name) was added Egas Moniz, because of the family, descending in direct line of Egas Moniz, a schoolmaster of Dom Afonso Henriques.

He completed his primary education at the School of Father José Ramos and secondary school courses in the College of St. True, the Jesuits in Louriçal Field, municipality of Castelo Branco. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Coimbra, started as lens replacement, teaching anatomy and physiology. In 1911 he was transferred to the newly created Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, where he was the chair of neurology as a professor. He retired in February 1944.

Egas Moniz was offered five times (1928, 1933, 1937, 1944 and 1949) to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine being awarded in 1949. The first one takes place a few months after publishing the first article on the arterial encephalography and subsequently have done, at the Necker Hospital in Paris, a demonstration of the technique encephalographic. This immediacy was not something absolutely ridiculous because, in effect, 'the will of Alfred Nobel was precisely the reward for work done during the year preceding the award of the'

The technique developed by Egas Moniz, the brain operation called lobotomy, no longer practiced by doctors for 30 years, and has been the subject of controversy. Relatives of patients who had demanded that this intervention would be wiped Nobel Prize

Field of Accomplishment: Physiology/Medicine Year of Award: 1949 Primary Relevant Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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