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Well-known experts, including Psychologist Elliot Valenstein, [17] and Neurologist Oliver Sacks, were particularly critical of Moniz's methods and him earning the Nobel Prize. [10] There have been calls to rescind Moniz's Nobel Prize, [18] especially from family members of patients who underwent leucotomies. [19]
One Nobel Prize recipient, the biologist Peter Medawar [a] (who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Australian virologist Frank Macfarlane Burnet), was born a Brazilian citizen but renounced his Brazilian citizenship at the age of 18, long before receiving the prize. [4] [5]
The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", [n 1] although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy. [4]
Pages in category "Portuguese Nobel laureates" ... António Egas Moniz; S. José Saramago This page was last edited on 23 May 2024, at 05:28 (UTC). ...
Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) [1] was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. [2] He shared the prize with Egas Moniz.
The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple awards, the total number of recipients is 860 individuals and 22 organizations. [1] The present list ranks laureates under the country/countries ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved ...
Moniz is a surname in the Portuguese language, ... António Egas Moniz (1874–1955), Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate; Bryant Moniz, ...