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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
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