Medicine 1949

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949

"for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs"

"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"

Walter Rudolf Hess	Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz

1/2 of the prize	1/2 of the prize
Switzerland	Portugal
University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland	University of Lisbon; Neurological Institute Lisbon, Portugal
b. 1881 d. 1973	b. 1874 d. 1955