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    António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz GCSE GCIB (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as Egas Moniz (Portuguese: [ˈɛɣɐʒ muˈniʃ]), was a Portuguese...
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    treatment. The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the...
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  • surname. It may refer to: António Egas Moniz (1874–1955), Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate Bryant Moniz, quarterback for the University...
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    1915), prominent neurologist and professor, close collaborator of António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize winner in physiology, and wife Maria Margarida Machado...
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    time, Thorotrast became widely used after its introduction in 1931. António Egas Moniz contributed to its development. About 2 to 10 million patients worldwide...
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    medal. Some awards have been controversial. This includes one to António Egas Moniz in 1949 for the prefrontal lobotomy, bestowed despite protests from...
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  • important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy. António Egas Moniz develops cerebral angiography. Ronald Canti's ground-breaking stop-motion...
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  • of valves Cerebral angiography, developed by António Egas Moniz Lobotomy, pioneered by António Egas Moniz Tropical medicine, pioneered by Garcia de Orta...
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    Finnish-Portuguese singer António de Abreu (c.1480-c.1514), Portuguese navigator and naval officer António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (1874–1955), better...
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    of medicine Nobel laureate and inventor of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, was ortolans as prepared at the restaurant Le Chapon Fin in Bordeaux...
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  • Government: António Bernardino Ferreira, Jorge Couceiro da Costa, João Tamagnini Barbosa, Álvaro de Mendonça, João do Canto e Castro, António Egas Moniz, João...
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    Berkeley. Walter Freeman nominated his mentor António Egas Moniz for a Nobel Prize, and in 1949 Moniz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine...
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    support for Slobodan Milošević. Science prizes In 1949, the neurologist António Egas Moniz received the Physiology or Medicine Prize for his development of the...
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    polycrystals for this purpose. The wavelength of maximum emission is 415 nm. António Egas Moniz searched for a radiocontrast agent for cerebral angiography. After...
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  • best results and recognition in the international scene. In 1935, Antonio Egas Moniz, a Portuguese physician, performed the first surgery on the oval center...
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    – Commander of the Portuguese Forces in the East African Campaign António Egas Moniz – Minister of Foreign Affairs (1918), later led the Portuguese delegation...
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    prefrontal cortex. The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949. Some patients...
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  • it is possible to say that his paternal grandfather was called Egas, probably Egas Moniz, a name that would become quite common in the family (in fact...
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    (town) Estarreja (city) Avanca (town) Pardilhó (town) Salreu (town) António Egas Moniz (1874–1955), the famous Portuguese doctor was born in Avanca, Estarreja...
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  • used until the 1930s following the work of Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz. The 1940s was the decade when psychosurgery was most popular, largely...
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    Eliot None 1949 Hideki Yukawa William Giauque Walter Rudolf Hess; António Egas Moniz William Faulkner John Boyd Orr 1950 C. F. Powell Otto Diels; Kurt...
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  • Babinski-like responses. It is named after Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz. Kumar SP, Ramasubramanian D (December 2000). "The Babinski sign--a...
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  • prizes, even when their validity is eventually disproven. For example, António Egas Moniz received the prize in 1949 for the prefrontal lobotomy which was bestowed...
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  • Poland (Russian Empire), Physics, 1903 José Saramago, Literature, 1998 António Egas Moniz, Physiology or Medicine, 1949 Stefan Hell*, Chemistry, 2014, Banat...
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    University of Lisbon and Porto. In 1949, the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, an early developer of the cerebral angiography, was awarded the Nobel...
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  • António Egas Moniz. In the procedure developed by Moniz, the "white matter" in the frontal lobes was severed using a leucotome, an instrument Moniz designed...
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    mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher (b. 1885) December 13 – António Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    Mattoso that the most likely tutor of Afonso Henriques was Egas Moniz's oldest brother, Ermígio Moniz, who, besides being the senior brother within the family...
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  • explorer (1945; 1984; 1991) Eça de Queiroz, novelist (1995; 2000) António Egas Moniz, neurologist (1966; 1974; 1983; 1999) Albert Einstein, Swiss physicist...
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  • used between the 1930s and 1950s,: 20  for which one its creators, António Egas Moniz, received a Nobel Prize in 1949. The lobotomy fell out of favor in...
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