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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 887,653 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. António Egas Moniz is the 30th most popular physician (up from 33rd in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Portugal 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 30 out of 726. Before him are Rudolf Virchow, Emil von Behring, Camillo Golgi, Claude Bernard, Paul Ehrlich, and Willem Einthoven. After him are Allvar Gullstrand, Jean-Martin Charcot, Qa'a, Al-Zahrawi, Marcello Malpighi, and Alexis Carrel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, António Egas Moniz ranks 15. Before him are Ernst Cassirer, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Edward Thorndike, Gertrude Stein, and Alexander Kolchak. After him are Carl Bosch, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sunjong of Korea, Nikolai Berdyaev, G. K. Chesterton, and Talaat Pasha. Among people deceased in 1955, António Egas Moniz ranks 7. Before him are Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, James Dean, Dale Carnegie, and Sadako Sasaki. After him are José Ortega y Gasset, Fernand Léger, Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Arthur Honegger.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, António Egas Moniz ranks 22 out of 633. Before him are Pedro I of Brazil (1798), Pope John XXI (1215), Isabella of Portugal (1503), Afonso de Albuquerque (1453), Sebastian of Portugal (1554), and John I of Portugal (1358). After him are Manuel II of Portugal (1889), John III of Portugal (1502), Afonso V of Portugal (1432), John IV of Portugal (1604), John VI of Portugal (1767), and Joseph I of Portugal (1714).

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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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