Antonio Egas Moniz won a 1949 Nobel Prize for introducing this procedure that affects the prefrontal lobes
[DOC] [TLE] Biography of Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz [PAR] In 1949 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Walter Rudolf 
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for his ... Egas Moniz' real name was Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire.