First name
António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas
Last name
Moniz
Date of birth
November 29, 1874
Date of death
December 13, 1955
Bio
Portuguese neurologist Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz earned a Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing the first psychosurgery procedure, frontal leukotomy.
Credit
Portrait courtesy UIC Department of Neurology