Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1949
Egas Moniz received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses. The award recognizes how this contribution changed the direction of its field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.