Antonio Egas Moniz won a 1949 Nobel Prize for introducing this procedure that affects the prefrontal lobes
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 ... Portuguese neurologist Egas 
Moniz introduced a surgical operation, prefrontal leukotomy,... [DOC] [TLE] Antnio Egas Moniz - Wikipedia [PAR] Antnio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874  13 
December 1955), ... For this, he was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize.