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Egas Moniz
António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
November 29, 1874 - December 13, 1955
Portuguese neurologist Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz earned a Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing the first psychosurgery procedure, frontal leukotomy.
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Portrait courtesy UIC Department of Neurology