Antonio Egas Moniz won a 1949 Nobel Prize for introducing this procedure that affects the prefrontal lobes
The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist 
Antnio Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 
for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", 
although... [DOC] [TLE] Antnio Egas Moniz (18741955): Lobotomy pioneer and Nobel ... [PAR] ... field, Portuguese doctor Antnio Egas Moniz, introduced the infamous frontal ...