page_title: Avanca
section_title: Notable citizens
hierarchical_section_title: Avanca / Notable citizens
caption_attribution_description: English: Nobel prize winner Egas Moniz
context_page_description: Avanca is a civil parish in the municipality of Estarreja, in the central subregion of Baixo Vouga. The population in 2011 was 6,189, in an area of 21.07 km².
context_section_description: Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), surgeon, politician and Nobel Prize recipient (along with Walter Rudolf Hess) for the development of leucotomy.
caption: Portrait of Egas Moniz, co-developer of lobotomy
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