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António Egas Moniz

1874 - 1955

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António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as Egas Moniz (Portuguese: [ˈɛɣɐʒ muˈniʃ]), 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—​better known today as lobotomy—​for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949 (shared with Walter Rudolf Hess). He held academic positions, wrote many medical articles and also served in several legislative and diplomatic posts in the Portuguese government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of António Egas Moniz has received more than 814,555 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). António Egas Moniz is the 33rd most popular physician (up from 46th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Portugal (up from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Portuguese Physician.

António Egas Moniz is most famous for inventing the prefrontal lobotomy, a medical procedure that involves cutting the connections between the prefrontal cortex and the rest of the brain.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, António Egas Moniz ranks 33 out of 502. Before him are Paul Ehrlich, Willem Einthoven, Alexis Carrel, Georgius Agricola, Al-Zahrawi, and Emil von Behring. After him are Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Samuel Hahnemann, Thutmose IV, Claude Bernard, Frederick Banting, and Aribert Heim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, António Egas Moniz ranks 13. Before him are Howard Carter, Edward Thorndike, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ernst Cassirer, Chaim Weizmann, and Max Scheler. After him are Johannes Stark, Alexander Kolchak, Carl Bosch, W. Somerset Maugham, Sunjong of Korea, and Gertrude Stein. Among people deceased in 1955, António Egas Moniz ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, James Dean, Dale Carnegie, José Ortega y Gasset, and Sadako Sasaki. After him are Charlie Parker, Fernand Léger, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, and Helmuth Weidling.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, António Egas Moniz ranks 22 out of 555. Before him are Cristiano Ronaldo (1985), Isabella of Portugal (1503), Pope John XXI (1215), Sebastian of Portugal (1554), José Mourinho (1963), and John II of Portugal (1455). After him are Afonso de Albuquerque (1453), John I of Portugal (1358), John III of Portugal (1502), Afonso V of Portugal (1432), Manuel II of Portugal (1889), and Amália Rodrigues (1920).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Portugal

Among physicians born in Portugal, António Egas Moniz ranks 1. After him are Garcia de Orta (1499).

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